And there went— From the passages referred to in the margin of our Bibles, it appears, that the name of the father of Moses was Amram, and his mother's Jochebed; a daughter of Levi, we render it; which means a descendant, one of the house and family of Levi (Levitidem, as Houbigant has it). As it is plain that they had children before Moses, viz. Aaron, who was three years older than Moses, Exodus 7:7 and a sister, most probably Miriam, (for we read of no other sister that he had,) Exodus 2:4. Numbers 26:59 the verse should rather be rendered, now a man of the house of Levi HAD GONE, and taken a wife of the house of Levi; or married a descendant of Levi.

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