John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations ,.... Whose sons, according to the order of their birth, were as follow: Gershom, and Kohath, and Merari ; see Genesis 46:11 , and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty seven years ; and exactly the same number of years is assigned him by Polyhistor from Demetrius F3 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425. , an Heathen writer. Jarchi says, that the reason why, the years... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 6:14-30
I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns (1 Tim. 1:4), for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the prophet and priest, the Redeemer and lawgiver, of the people of Israel, and whose genealogy also, like this, was to be carefully... read more