Exodus 6:25
But Eleazar the son of Aaron took a wife of the daughters of Phutiel: and she bore him Phinees. These are the heads of the Levitical families by their kindreds.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- At vero Eleazar filius Aaron accepit uxorem de filiabus Phutiel : quæ peperit ei Phinees. Hi sunt principes familiarum Leviticarum per cognationes suas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ Ἐλεαζὰρ ὁ τοῦ Ἀαρὼν ἔλαβεν τῶν θυγατέρων Φουτιὴλ αὐτῷ γυναῖκα, καὶ ἔτεκεν αὐτῷ τὸν Φινεές· αὗται αἱ ἀρχαὶ πατριᾶς Λευειτῶν κατὰ γενέσεις αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֶלְעָזָ֨ר בֶּֽן אַהֲרֹ֜ן לָקַֽח ל֨וֹ מִבְּנ֤וֹת פּֽוּטִיאֵל֙ ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה וַתֵּ֥לֶד ל֖וֹ אֶת פִּֽינְחָ֑ס אֵ֗לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֛י אֲב֥וֹת הַלְוִיִּ֖ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם
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. …