Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Beth-lehem-judah—so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15).
of the family—that is, tribe.
of Judah—Men of the tribe of Levi might connect themselves, as Aaron did (Exodus 6:23), by marriage with another tribe; and this young Levite belonged to the tribe of Judah, by his mother's side, which accounts for his being in Beth-lehem, not one of the Levitical cities.
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