Exodus 6:23
וַיִּקַּח אַהֲרֹן אֶת־אֱלִישֶׁבַע בַּת־עַמִּינָדָב אֲחוֹת נַחְשׁוֹן לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה וַתֵּלֶד לוֹ אֶת־נָדָב וְאֶת־אֲבִיהוּא אֶת־אֶלְעָזָר וְאֶת־אִֽיתָמָֽר׃
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וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַהֲרֹ֜ן אֶת־אֱלִישֶׁ֧בַע בַּת־עַמִּינָדָ֛ב אֲח֥וֹת נַחְשׁ֖וֹן ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֗וֹ אֶת־נָדָב֙ וְאֶת־אֲבִיה֔וּא אֶת־אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאֶת־אִֽיתָמָֽר׃
ἔλαβεν δὲ Ἀαρὼν τὴν ’Eλεισάβεθ θυγατέρα Ἀμειναδὰβ ἀδελφὴν Ναασσὼν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα, καὶ ἕνεκεν αὐτῷ τόν τε Ναδὰβ καὶ τὸν Ἀβιοὺδ καὶ τὸν λεαζὰρ καὶ Ἴ’
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Accepit autem Aaron uxorem Elisabeth filiam Aminadab, sororem Nahason, quæ peperit ei Nadab, et Abiu, et Eleazar, et Ithamar.
Aarón se casó con Eliseba, hija de Aminadab y hermana de Naasón, y ella dio a luz a Nadab, a Abiú, a Eleazar y a Itamar.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Y tomóse Aarón por mujer á Elisabeth, hija de Aminadab, hermana de Naasón; la cual le parió á Nadab, y á Abiú, y á Eleazar y á Ithamar.
And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse records that Aaron took Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, as his wife, and lists the four sons she bore him: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Key words
- va-yiqqach ("and he took", H3947I) — qal narrative verb form, marking the next event in the genealogical sequence; the subject "he" refers to Aaron.
- bat ("daughter of", H1323G) — feminine singular construct noun, linking Elisheba directly to her father Amminadab without a separate word for "of".
- achot ("sister of", H0269) — feminine singular construct noun, linking Elisheba to her brother Nahshon in the same construct-chain style as bat.
- le-ishah ("to/for a wife", H9005 + H0802H) — preposition plus noun indicating the purpose of the taking: Aaron took her as a wife, a fixed idiom for marriage.
- va-teled ("and she bore", H3205) — qal narrative verb, feminine subject (Elisheba), continuing the narrative chain to introduce the offspring.
What the text says
The verse is built as two narrative clauses joined by the vav-consecutive pattern (va-yiqqach … va-teled), typical of Hebrew genealogical and historical prose: first an action by the male subject (Aaron taking a wife), then a resulting action by the female subject (Elisheba bearing children). Elisheba's identity is established through two construct chains — bat-Amminadab ("daughter of Amminadab", H1323G) and achot-Nachshon ("sister of Nahshon", H0269) — a common way in Hebrew to anchor a woman's identity through her paternal and fraternal relations rather than through an independent description. The four sons are introduced sequentially, each marked by the direct object marker et (H0853), which has no independent meaning but signals that each name functions as the direct object of va-teled. The repeated ve-et ("and ", H9002 + H0853) before the last three names creates a simple additive list structure without further descriptive comment on the sons themselves.
Differences between versions
The Septuagint (LXXSWETE) gives the third son's name as Ἀβιούδ (Abioud) rather than matching the Hebrew Avihu (H0030, Abihu) as transliterated in the Vulgate and modern translations. The LXX text also appears truncated in the source provided, cutting off before completing the fourth name (Ithamar), where the Hebrew Itamar (H0385) and Vulgate "Ithamar" are complete.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.