Exodus 28:1
Take unto thee also Aaron thy brother with his sons, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister to me in the priest's office: Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Applica quoque ad te Aaron fratrem tuum cum filiis suis de medio filiorum Israël, ut sacerdotio fungantur mihi : Aaron, Nadab, et Abiu, Eleazar, et Ithamar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ σὺ προσαγάγου πρὸς σεαυτὸν τόν τε Ἀαρὼν τὸν ἀδελφόν σου καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἱερατεύειν μοι, Ἀαρών, καὶ Ναδὰβ καὶ Ἀβιοὺδ καὶ Ἐλεαζὰρ καὶ Ἰθαμὰρ υἱοὺς Ἀαρών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאַתָּ֡ה הַקְרֵ֣ב אֵלֶיךָ֩ אֶת אַהֲרֹ֨ן אָחִ֜יךָ וְאֶת בָּנָ֣יו אִתּ֔וֹ מִתּ֛וֹךְ בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְכַהֲנוֹ לִ֑י אַהֲרֹ֕ן נָדָ֧ב וַאֲבִיה֛וּא אֶלְעָזָ֥ר וְאִיתָמָ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י אַהֲרֹֽן
Haydock's commentary
Take, &c. Priests must be called by God, as Aaron was, Hebrews v. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Against Heresies: Book II, Chapter XXIV. Folly of the arguments
4. But that this point is true, that that number which is called five , which agrees in no respect with their argument, and does not harmonize with their system, nor is suitable for a typical manifestation of the things in the Pleroma, [yet has a wide prevalence] will be proved as follows from the Scriptures. Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters; Agape (love), too, consists of five letters; and our Lord, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men. Five virgins were called wise by the Lord; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish. Again, five men are said to have been with the Lord when He obtained testimony from the Father, namely, Peter, and James, and John, and Moses, and Elias. …