16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
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And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-30)I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns (1 Tim. 1:4), for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the prophet and priest, the Redeemer and la…
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