17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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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