Thirty years; the age at which priests entered on their public duties. Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:47.

As was supposed; as was generally thought by those who did not know the history of his birth. The son of Heli; in Matthew 1:16, it is said, "Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary." Here Joseph is called "the son of Heli." Various ways have been proposed for reconciling the two genealogies of Matthew and Luke. One is, that Mary was the daughter of Heli; and on that account Joseph is called his son. Luke, it is then supposed, gives the genealogy of Mary, while Matthew gives that of Joseph.

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Old Testament