Numbers Chapter 3 verse 1 Holy Bible
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
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Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
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And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
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These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
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These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
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And these `are' births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - These... are the generations of Aaron and Moses. The word "generations" (toledoth) is used here in a peculiar and, so to speak, technical sense, with reference to what follows, as in Genesis 2:4; Genesis 6:9. It marks a new departure, looking down, not up, the course of history. Moses and Aaron were a beginning in themselves as the chosen heads of the chosen tribe: Moses having the higher office, but one entirely personal to himself; Aaron being the first of a long and eminent line of priests. The actual genealogy, therefore, is that of Aaron, and he is placed first. In the day. Apparently the day mentioned in Numbers 1:1; or it may be more general, as in Genesis 2:4.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersIII.(1) These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses . . . --The name of Aaron is placed first, not only because he was the elder brother, but also because the ministry of Moses was restricted to his own person, and his sons are merely classed amongst the rest of the Levitical families in 1Chronicles 23:14; whereas the office of Aaron was perpetuated in the persons of his descendants. Hence we find no mention made in this place of the sons of Moses, but only of those of Aaron. The word generations here, as in the book of Genesis (e.g., Genesis 6:9; Genesis 25:19) and elsewhere, is used to denote the history; and in this sense the present and the following chapters pertain as much to Moses as to Aaron. Or the reference may be to the fact that Moses and Aaron were made the heads of the whole tribe of Levi, and therefore that the Levitical families generally are traced up equally to both.
