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Because both genealogies were probably made up to fit a narrative.

I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, but I don't believe that the authors were entirely accurate when they wrote things down. They lived in a time when myth and legends were considered scientific fact. If you think that you're smarter than they were, and the way you think about things is better, well, it wasn't so long ago that people thought leeches would cure various diseases because the humors were out of balance. That was modern, cutting edge science, and those people thought everyone that came before them were silly. What are your grandkids going to think of your carefully reasoned out observations and rationalizations? Be very careful when you try to judge others from the past based on the current state of civilization!

Once you realize that the authors were not being very careful with their claims, and never once considered that a highly skeptical generation of people that would demand every carefully written word would match and agree with every other word would ever exist, the Bible makes a whole lot more sense. They just did not think that way, and if we are to think that way we are to read into the text things that just aren't there.