Numbers 3:1
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Cross References
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generation of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.
Exodus 6:16And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven.
Exodus 6:27These are they that speak to Pharao king of Egypt, in order to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron
Leviticus 27:34These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:1
This chapter and the next are concerning the tribe of Levi, which was to be mustered and marshalled by itself, and not in common with the other tribes, intimating the particular honour put upon them and the particular duty and service required from them. The Levites are in this chapter considered, I. As attendants on, and assistants to, the priests in the temple-service. And so we have an account, 1. Of the priests themselves ( ver. 1-4 ) and their work, ver. 10 . 2. Of the gift of the Levites to them ( ver. 5-9… Read the whole commentary →