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Numbers 3:1

Numbers 3:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

These … are the generations of Aaron and Moses. The word "generations" (toledoth) is used here in a peculiar and, so to speak, technical sense, with reference to what follows, as in ; .

It marks a new departure, looking down, not up, the course of history. Moses and Aaron were a beginning in themselves as the chosen heads of the chosen tribe: Moses having the higher office, but one entirely personal to himself; Aaron being the first of a long and eminent line of priests.

The actual genealogy, therefore, is that of Aaron, and he is placed first. In the day. Apparently the day mentioned in ; or it may be more general, as in .

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