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THE MESSAGE
Numbers 3:1
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Now this is the history of the generations of Aharon and Moshe in the day that the LORD spoke with Moshe in Mount Sinai.
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
These are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
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.
Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
These also were the generations of Aaron & Moses, in the day that the Lorde spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
When the Lord talked with Moses on Mount Sinai,
(iv) These are the descendants of Aharon and Moshe as of the day when Adonai spoke with Moshe on Mount Sinai.
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai.
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
THESE are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses on mount Sinai.
This is the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
These are the family records of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day Jehovah spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
These are the generacions of Aaron & Moses, whan ye LORDE spake vnto Moses at ye same tyme vpon mount Sinai.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moyses, in ye day that the Lorde spake with Moyses in mount Sinai.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
And these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day in which the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sina.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.
These ben the generaciouns of Aaron and of Moises, in the dai in which the Lord spak to Moises, in the hil of Synay.
And these [are] births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.
Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day [that] the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai.
Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 10:1-7">[xr] Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
This is the family line of Aaron and Moses as it was recorded when the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:
These are the people of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
This is the lineage of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Now, these, were the pedigrees of Aaron and Moses, - in the day when Yahweh spake with Moses in Mount Sinai.
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
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
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
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning you. You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Pseudo-Servants of God Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment. The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ. It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached—different spirit, different message—you put up with him quite nicely. But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are. It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything. I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me? It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride. Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it. With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think. It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do. I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us. And I'm not changing my position on this. I'd die before taking your money. I'm giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing "preachers," vaunting themselves as something special. They're a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Let me come back to where I started—and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little. I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ. Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days. Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along. You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down—even slap your face! I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff. Since you admire the egomaniacs of the pulpit so much (remember, this is your old friend, the fool, talking), let me try my hand at it. Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match. Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.) I've worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death's door time after time. I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day. In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers. I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather. And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches. When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut. If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus. The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying. Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me? I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.
The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God's grace, you're equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don't run aground.
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.
