Exodus 6:23
And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Accepit autem Aaron uxorem Elisabeth filiam Aminadab, sororem Nahason, quæ peperit ei Nadab, et Abiu, et Eleazar, et Ithamar.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔλαβεν δὲ Ἀαρὼν τὴν Ἐλεισάβεθ θυγατέρα Ἀμειναδὰβ ἀδελφὴν Ναασσὼν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα, καὶ ἔτεκεν αὐτῷ τόν τε Ναδὰβ καὶ τὸν Ἀβιοὺδ καὶ τὸν Ἐλεαζὰρ καὶ Ἰθαμάρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַהֲרֹ֜ן אֶת אֱלִישֶׁ֧בַע בַּת עַמִּינָדָ֛ב אֲח֥וֹת נַחְשׁ֖וֹן ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֗וֹ אֶת נָדָב֙ וְאֶת אֲבִיה֔וּא אֶת אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאֶת אִֽיתָמָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Nahason, prince of the tribe of Juda, Numbers i. 7. Observe the modesty of Moses, who passes over his own family almost in silence. (Menochius)
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
Julius Africanus Section I, Chapter I
[Africanus on the Genealogy in the Holy Gospels . Some indeed incorrectly allege that this discrepant enumeration and mixing of the names both of priestly men, as they think, and royal, was made properly, in order that Christ might be shown rightfully to be both Priest and King; as if any one disbelieved this, or had any other hope than this, that Christ is the High Priest of His Father, who presents our prayers to Him, and a supramundane King, who rules by the Spirit those whom He has delivered, a cooperator in the government of all things. And this is announced to us not by the catalogue of the tribes, nor by the mixing of the registered generations, but by the patriarchs and prophets. Let us not therefore descend to such religious trifling as to establish the kingship and priesthood of Christ by the interchanges of the names. …