Bible Strands
Numbers 26:59
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses records a second census of the Israelites in the plains of Moab, listing the Levitical families to establish tribal lineage and leadership before the conquest. The words — בַּת־לֵוִי (bat-Levi) = daughter of Levi, and יָלְדָה (yaldah) = bore/gave birth. The thread — Exodus 6:20 records Amram marrying Jochebed and the birth of Aaron and Moses. Exodus 2:1 identifies the parents as a man of Levi and a Levite woman. Leviticus 18:12 prohibits sexual relations with a father’s sister. Why it lands — It grounds the Exodus leadership in a documented Levitical family, requiring the reader to trace the priestly and prophetic lines through specific ancestral records rather than abstract tradition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Exodus 6:20 And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
- Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
- Leviticus 18:12 You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.