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Numbers 3:1

This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sinai;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Horeb;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Horeb;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoption;   Hafṭarah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Now this is the history of the generations of Aharon and Moshe in the day that the LORD spoke with Moshe in Mount Sinai.
King James Version
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Lexham English Bible
These are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
New Century Version
This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai.
New English Translation
Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Amplified Bible
Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day when the LORD spoke [by special revelation] with Moses on Mount Sinai.
New American Standard Bible
Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These also were the generations of Aaron & Moses, in the day that the Lorde spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Contemporary English Version
When the Lord talked with Moses on Mount Sinai,
Complete Jewish Bible
(iv) These are the descendants of Aharon and Moshe as of the day when Adonai spoke with Moshe on Mount Sinai.
Darby Translation
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
English Standard Version
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
George Lamsa Translation
THESE are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
Good News Translation
This is the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Christian Standard Bible®
These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Literal Translation
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day Jehovah spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the generacions of Aaron & Moses, whan ye LORDE spake vnto Moses at ye same tyme vpon mount Sinai.
American Standard Version
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Bible in Basic English
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moyses, in ye day that the Lorde spake with Moyses in mount Sinai.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
King James Version (1611)
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day in which the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sina.
English Revised Version
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These ben the generaciouns of Aaron and of Moises, in the dai in which the Lord spak to Moises, in the hil of Synay.
Young's Literal Translation
And these [are] births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.
Update Bible Version
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
Webster's Bible Translation
These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day [that] the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
World English Bible
Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
New King James Version
Leviticus 10:1-7">[xr] Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
New Living Translation
This is the family line of Aaron and Moses as it was recorded when the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:
New Life Bible
These are the people of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
New Revised Standard
This is the lineage of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, these, were the pedigrees of Aaron and Moses, - in the day when Yahweh spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.
Revised Standard Version
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
THE MESSAGE
This is the family tree of Aaron and Moses at the time God spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 Aaron had four sons. Nadab was the firstborn son. Then there were Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These sons were the chosen priests. They were given the special work of serving the Lord as priests. 4 But Nadab and Abihu died while serving the Lord . They used fire that the Lord did not allow when they made an offering to him. So Nadab and Abihu died there, in the desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar took their place and served the Lord as priests. This happened while their father Aaron was still alive. 5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 "Bring all the men from the tribe of Levi. Bring them to Aaron the priest. These men will be his helpers. 7 The Levites will help him when he serves at the Meeting Tent. And they will help all the Israelites when they come to worship at the Holy Tent. 8 The Israelites should protect everything in the Meeting Tent; it is their duty. But the Levites will serve the Israelites by caring for these things. This will be their way of serving at the Holy Tent. 9 "Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. The Levites were chosen from all the Israelites to help Aaron and his sons. 10 "Appoint Aaron and his sons to be priests. They must do their duty and serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to come near the holy things must be killed."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

generations: Genesis 2:4, Genesis 5:1, Genesis 10:1, Exodus 6:16, Exodus 6:20, Matthew 1:1

spake: Numbers 1:1, Leviticus 25:1, Leviticus 27:34

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:47 - General Numbers 1:50 - thou shalt Numbers 8:1 - General Numbers 26:57 - of Gershon Deuteronomy 10:8 - time the Lord 1 Chronicles 6:48 - brethren Zechariah 12:13 - Levi

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child's foot, but he will crush your head."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
If one person falls, the other person can reach out to help. But those who are alone when they fall have no one to help them.
Isaiah 27:1
At that time the Lord will judge Leviathan, the crooked snake. He will use his great sword, his hard and powerful sword, to punish Leviathan, that twisting, turning snake. He will kill the monster of the sea.
Matthew 4:3
The devil came to tempt him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these rocks to become bread."
Matthew 4:6
He said to Jesus, "If you are the Son of God, jump off, because the Scriptures say, ‘God will command his angels to help you, and their hands will catch you, so that you will not hit your foot on a rock.'"
Matthew 4:9
The devil said, "If you will bow down and worship me, I will give you all these things."
Matthew 10:16
"Listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be smart like snakes. But also be like doves and don't hurt anyone.
2 Corinthians 11:14
That does not surprise us, because even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light.
1 Peter 3:7
In the same way, you husbands should live with your wives in an understanding way, since they are weaker than you. You should show them respect, because God gives them the same blessing he gives you—the grace of true life. Do this so that nothing will stop your prayers from being heard.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses,.... The descendants of them, those of the former, who is named first, because the eldest, were priests, and those of the latter Levites, and who are not very plainly pointed at, but are included among the Amramites, Numbers 3:27; the posterity of Moses being very obscure, only Levites, and these not particularly named but swallowed up among the Kohathites: find the following account was as it stood,

in the day [that] the Lord spoke with Moses in mount Sinai; and not, altogether as it then, was when he spoke to him in the wilderness, of Sinai, for then Aaron had four sons, but now two of them were dead as is after observed; and it seems to be for the sake of this circumstance chiefly that this clause is so put.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “generations” (see Genesis 2:4) now given, though entitled those of Aaron and Moses (Aaron standing first as the older brother), are those of Aaron only. The personal dignity of Moses, though it gave him rank as at the head of his tribe, was not hereditary. He had, and desired to have Numbers 14:12; Exodus 32:10, no successor in his office but the distant prophet like unto himself Deuteronomy 18:18. Aaron was the ancestor of a regular succession of priests.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The generations of Aaron and Moses, 1-4.

The tribe of Levi to minister to the Lord under Aaron and his

sons, 5-10.

They are taken in the place of the first-born, 11-13.

Moses is commanded to number them, 14-16.

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the names of the three heads of

families of the Levites, 17.

Of Gershon and his family, 18-21.

Their number, 7,500, ver. 22.

Their place behind the tabernacle, westward, 23.

Their chief, Eliasaph, 24.

Their charge, 25, 26.

Of Kohath and his family, 27.

Their number, 8,600, ver. 28.

Their place, beside the tabernacle, southward, 29.

Their chief, Elizaphan, 30.

Their charge, 31.

The chief of the Levites, Eleazar, son of Aaron, 32.

Of Merari and his family, 33.

Their number, 6,200, ver. 34.

Their chief, Zuriel, they shall pitch beside the tabernacle,

northward, 35.

Their charge, 35-37.

MOSES and AARON to encamp before the tabernacle, eastward, 38.

The amount of all the males among the Levites from a month old

and upwards, 22,000, ver. 39.

Moses is commanded to number the first-born, 40;

and to take the Levites and their cattle, instead of the

first-born of man and beast among the Israelites, 41.

Moses numbers the first-born, who amount to 22,273, ver. 43.

As the first-born were 273 more than the Levites, Moses is

commanded to take from the people five shekels apiece for

them, 44-47,

which is to be given to Aaron and his sons, 48.

Moses does accordingly, and finds the amount of the money to be

1,365 shekels, 49, 50,

which is given to Aaron and his sons, 51.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Numbers 3:1. The generations of Aaron and Moses — Though Aaron and Moses are both mentioned here, yet the family of Aaron alone appears in the list: hence some have thought that the word Moses was not originally in the text. Others think that the words ואלה תלדות veelleh toledoth, these are the generations, should be rendered these are the acts, or transactions, or the history of the lives, as the same phrase may be understood in Genesis 2:4; Genesis 6:9. However this may be, it is evident that in this genealogy the family of Aaron are alone mentioned, probably because these belonged to the priesthood. Moses passes by his own family, or immediate descendants; he gave no rank or privilege to them during his life, and left nothing to them at his death. They became incorporated with the Levites, from or amongst whom they are never distinguished. What a strong proof is this of the celestial origin of his religion! Had it been of man, it must have had the gratification of some impure passion for its object; lust, ambition, or avarice: but none of these ever appear during the whole of his administration amongst the Israelites, though he had it constantly in his power to have gratified each. What an essential difference between the religion of the Pentateuch and that of the Koran! The former is God's workmanship; the latter is a motley mixture of all bad crafts, with here and there a portion of heavenly fire, stolen from the Divine altar in the Old and New Testaments, to give some vitality to the otherwise inert mass.


 
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