John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 3:30

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.] The same man, who, with his brother Mishael, carried Nadab and Abihu out of the camp, and buried them, (<031004>Leviticus 10:4,5); he descended from the last and youngest of the families of the Kohathites; and some think this was one reason at least of Korah’s dissatisfaction, and of his entering into a conspiracy against Moses and Aaron, because one of a younger family of his house was preferred to this dignity before him.

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