The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
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The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
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And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
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And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
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Passages linked to Numbers 26:59 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 6:20 Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.
- Exodus 2:1-2 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- Leviticus 18:12 “ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Her mother, to wit, Levi’s wife, which must necessarily…
Her mother, to wit, Levi’s wife, which must necessarily be understood.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain whom her mother bare - literally, “whom she bare;”…
whom her mother bare - literally, “whom she bare;” the subject is wanting, and the verb is in the feminine gender. The words “her mother” are merely conjectural. The text is probably imperfect.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Levi. Septuagint, "who bore these (Lobni, &c.) to Levi,…
Levi. Septuagint, "who bore these (Lobni, &c.) to Levi, in Egypt; and she bore to Amram, Aaron," &c., as if Jochabed had been wife both of Levi and of Amram, which is very improbable. It is more likely that the wives of these two bore the same name. The Hebrew may agree very well with the Vulgate. See Exodus ii. 1. (Calmet) --- It was afterwards forbidden for a person to marry his aunt, Leviticus xviii. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 59. Jochebed — Fully discussed in Exo_6:20, note.
59. Jochebed — Fully discussed in Exo_6:20, note.
Whom… bare to Levi — There is an omission of the subject in the Hebrew. The implication is, that Levi’s lawful wife was not the mother of Jochebed. “It cannot be Levi’s wife, as Jarshi, Aben Ezra, and others suppose; for Jochebed, the mother of Moses, was not a daughter of Levi in the strict sense of the word, but only a descendant who lived about three hundred years after Levi; just as Amram, her husband, was not actually the son of the Amram mentioned Exo_6:18, but a later descendant.” — Keil.
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Miriam — Probably the sister who watched the ark of bulrushes amid the flags of the Nile. Exo_2:4.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 59, 60. The Kohathites receive more detailed treatment; it…
59, 60. The Kohathites receive more detailed treatment; it was the most important of the families, because Moses and Aaron belonged to it.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (59) Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother…
(59) Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi . . . —Or, who was born to Levi, &c. There is a similar omission of the subject of the verb in 1Ki_1:6. Some writers have supposed that Jochebed was the granddaughter, or possibly even some more remote descendant of Levi, and that Amram, the father of Moses, was not the same as Amram, the son of Kohath. (See Keil, “On the Pentateuch,” i. 469-471; but for a defence of the view which has been more commonly adopted, see Birks’ “Exodus of Israel,” pp. 153-199.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare…
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt. Rather, "whom she (Htao) bare." The missing subject is usually supplied, as in the A.V, and there certainly seems no more difficulty in doing so here than in 1Ki_1:6. Some critics take "Atha" as a proper name Atha bare;" others render "who was born;" this, however, like the Septuagint, h eteke toutouv tw Leui , requires a change of reading. Perhaps the text is imperfect. The statement here made, whatever difficulties it creates, is in entire agreement with Exo_6:20 1Ch_23:6, 1Ch_23:12, 1Ch_23:13, and other passages. If two Amrams, the later of whom lived some 200 years after the earlier, have been confused (as we seem driven to believe), the confusion is consistently maintained through all the extant records. (see the note on Num_3:28)
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