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NUMBERS CHAPTER 3
The genealogy of Moses, Aaron, and his sons, Nadab and Abihu, Num_3:1-4. The Levites are joined with them in the administration of the tabernacle, Num_3:5-10, instead of all the first-born, Num_3:11-13. The three families of the Levites numbered, Num_3:14-39. The first-born numbered, Num_3:40-43. Being more than the Levites, some of them are redeemed, and the money given to Aaron and his sons, Num_3:41-51.
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These which follow in this chapter are the generations, i.e. either,
1. The things done by them; as the word generation is sometimes used, as Gen_6:9 25:19 37:2. Or rather,
2. The kindred or family, for that is the subject of this chapter, and not their events or actions.
Object. Aaron’s family indeed is here mentioned, but not Moses’s family.
Answ. Moses’s family and children are here included under the general name of the Amramite, Num_3:27, which includes all the children and grandchildren of Amram, the persons only of Aaron and Moses being excepted. And the generations of Moses are thus obscurely mentioned, because they were but common Levites, the priesthood being given solely to Aaron’s posterity, whence Aaron is here put before Moses, who elsewhere is commonly named after him. In the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai: this seems to be added, because Nadab and Abihu, mentioned Num_3:2, were then alive, though dead at the time of taking this account.