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Maryam (Mary)
Verse 28
Translation:
28. "O sister of Aaron! thy father was not a man of evil nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"
Notes (Tafseer):
2481. Aaron the brother of Moses was the first in the line of Israelite priesthood. Mary and her cousin Elisabeth (mother of Yahya) came of a priestly family, and were therefore, "sisters of Aaron" or daughters of 'Imran (who was Aaron's father). See n. 375 to iii. 35. Mary is reminded of her high lineage and the unexceptionable morals of her father and mother. How, they said, she had fallen, and disgraced the name of her progenitors!
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