19And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
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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