Numbers 3:2

2 and these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the eldest sonne and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar.

Numbers 3:2 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:2

And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron
The Targum of Jonathan adds, disciples of Moses, the master of the Israelites; none of the posterity of Moses being expressly, named; Jarchi observes, that the sons of Aaron are called the generations of Moses, because he taught them the law; for whoever, he says, teaches his neighbour's son, the law, the Scripture accounts of him as if he begat him, see ( 1 Corinthians 4:15 ) ;

Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar;
as in ( Exodus 6:23 ) .

Numbers 3:2 In-Context

1 These are the generacions of Aaron and Moses when the Lorde spake vnto Moses in mount Sinai

2 and these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the eldest sonne and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar.

3 These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron which were preastes anoynted and their handes fylled to mynistre

4 but Nadab and Abihu dyed before the Lorde as they broughte straunge fyre before the Lorde in the wyldernesse of Sinai and had no childern. And Eleazar and Ithamar mynistred in the syght of Aaron their father.

5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses saynge