Joshua 19:51

19:51 These are the land assignments which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders ¹  made by drawing lots in Shiloh before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting. ²  So they finished dividing up the land.

Exodus 6:14

The Ancestry of the Deliverer

6:14 ³ These are the heads of their fathers’ households: ⁴ 

The sons ⁵  of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans ⁶  of Reuben.

Exodus 6:25

6:25 Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas.

These are the heads of the fathers’ households ⁷  of Levi according to their clans.

[19:51]  ¹ tn Heb “the leaders of the fathers of the tribes.”

[19:51]  ² tn Heb “at the entrance of the tent of assembly.”

[6:14]  ³ sn This list of names shows that Moses and Aaron are in the line of Levi that came to the priesthood. It helps to identify them and authenticate them as spokesmen for God within the larger history of Israel. As N. M. Sarna observes, “Because a genealogy inherently symbolizes vigor and continuity, its presence here also injects a reassuring note into the otherwise despondent mood” (Exodus [JPSTC], 33).

[6:14]  ⁴ tn The expression is literally “the house of their fathers.” This expression means that the household or family descended from a single ancestor. It usually indicates a subdivision of a tribe, that is, a clan, or the subdivision of a clan, that is, a family. Here it refers to a clan (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 46).

[6:14]  ⁵ tn Or “descendants.”

[6:14]  ⁶ tn Or “families,” and so throughout the genealogy.

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “heads of the fathers” is taken as an abbreviation for the description of “households” in v. 14.