Exodus 2:1
◄There was a man who/My father► was descended from Jacob’s son Levi. He married a woman who was also descended from Levi.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 35:22While they were living in that area, Jacob’s son Reuben had sex [EUP] with Bilhah, one of his father’s ◄concubines/female slaves whom he had taken as a secondary wife►. Someone told Jacob about it, and it made him very angry. ◄I will now give you/Here is► a list of Jacob’s twelve sons.
Exodus 6:20Amram married his father’s sister, Jochebed. She was the mother of Aaron and Moses/me. Amram was 137 years old when he died.
1 Kings 11:17Hadad was a young child at that time, and he had escaped to Egypt, along with some of his father’s servants from the Edom area.
1 Chronicles 23:12Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:1
This chapter begins the story of Moses, that man of renown, famed for his intimate acquaintance with Heaven and his eminent usefulness on earth, and the most remarkable type of Christ, as a prophet, saviour, lawgiver, and mediator, in all the Old Testament. The Jews have a book among them of the life of Moses, which tells a great many stories concerning him, which we have reason to think are mere fictions; what he has recorded concerning himself is what we may rely upon, for we know that his record is true; and it… Read the whole commentary →