Of the Levites, the Kohathites, the kinsmen of Moses and Aaron, and the most numerous, have the most important charge confided to them, namely, tha…

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest ... — By virtue, it seems, of the descent of Moses and Aaron from Kohath, the Kohathites h…

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
Who was of the first of these families, the Amramites:

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The Levites were in three cla es according to the sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari—and these were subdivided into families. The descendants…