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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 3:1

And these [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day of YHWH's speaking with Moses in 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;   Hafá¹­arah;  

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to 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

1And these [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day of YHWH's speaking with Moses in Mount Sinai.2And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: the firstborn Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar; 3these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he has consecrated for acting as priest. 4And Nadab dies—Abihu also—before YHWH, in their bringing strange fire near before YHWH, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they did not have sons; and Eleazar—Ithamar also—acts as priest in the presence of their father Aaron. 5And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 6"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and you have caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, 7and kept his charge, and the charge of all the congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the Dwelling Place; 8and they have kept all the vessels of the Tent of Meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the Dwelling Place; 9and you have given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel. 10And you appoint Aaron and his sons, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who comes near is put to death."

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
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."
Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if they fall, the one raises up his companion, but woe to the one who falls and there is not a second to raise him up!
Isaiah 27:1
In that day YHWH lays a charge, || With His sword—the sharp, and the great, and the strong, || On leviathan—a fleeing serpent, || And on leviathan—a crooked serpent, || And He has slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.
Matthew 4:3
And the tempting [one], having come to Him, said, "If You are the Son of God—speak that these stones may become loaves."
Matthew 4:6
and says to Him, "If You are the Son of God—cast Yourself down, for it has been written that, His messengers He will charge concerning you, and on hands they will bear you up, that you may not dash your foot on a stone."
Matthew 4:9
and says to Him, "All these I will give to You, if falling down You may worship me."
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, therefore be wise as the serpents, and pure as the doves.
2 Corinthians 11:14
and no wonder—for even Satan transforms himself into a messenger of light;
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in like manner, dwelling with [them], according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel—to the wife—imparting honor, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers are not hindered.

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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