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Elazar, Aaron's son, married one of Putiel's daughters, and she bore him:
Pinchas.
These were the heads of the Levitical families, family by family.
And when Phinehas [meaning "dark-skinned" in Egyptian, later became the high priest of the people, see and ; ; ], son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand.
Pinchas, son of Elazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned away my wrath from the sons of Israel when he was zealous (jealous) for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my zeal (jealousy).
And Moses sent them to battle, 1,000 from each tribe, and Phinehas, son of the priest Eleazar, to battle with the holy objects and the trumpet for battle signals in his hand.
And the sons of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead,
And when the priest Phinehas and the leaders of the congregation, the leaders of the thousands of Israel (clans, families – family groups) who were with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh: "Today we know (we are intimately acquainted with) that the Lord (Yahweh) is in our midst, because you have not been treacherous toward the Lord (Yahweh), and have not delivered the sons of Israel to fall away from the hand of the Lord (Yahweh)."
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad out of the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan to the sons of Israel, and brought word.
And Eleazar, Aaron's son, died, and they buried him on the hill of his son Phinehas, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days and said, "Shall I go out again to battle against the sons of Benjamin, my brother, or shall I cease?" The Lord answered, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give him into your hand."
Elazar became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua.
These are the descendants of Aaron: his son was Eleazar, whose son was Phinehas, whose son was Abishua,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, had previously been prince over them—may the Lord be with him!
son of Avishoa, son of Pinchas, son of Elazar, son of Aaron, the high priest. [As a descendant of Aaron, he came from the highest and most respected Jewish priestly family. His status as a priest also gave him political influence.]
From the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; from the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; from the sons of David, Hattush;
But Phinehas stood up and intervened
so that the plague was stopped. []
