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Lineage Confirms Calling
Commentators explain that this genealogy's main purpose is to formally identify Moses and Aaron. By detailing their Levitical ancestry right before recounting their confrontation with Pharaoh, the text confirms that these are the specific men God appointed for the mission of the Exodus.
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Exodus
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Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 6:25
19th Century
Bishop
According to their families.—The genealogy proper ends here. But the author appends to it an emphatic statement that the Moses and Aaron m…
John Gill
On Exodus 6:25
17th Century
Pastor
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of
Putiel to wife
This was Aaro…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 6:14–30
17th Century
Minister
Moses and Aaron were Israelites, raised up to them from among their brothers, as Christ also was to be, who was to be the Prophet and Priest, the R…