Exodus 2:1

_AND THERE WENT A MAN OF THE HOUSE OF LEVI, AND TOOK TO WIFE A DAUGHTER OF LEVI._ There went a man ... The name of the man was Amram, and that of the woman whom he espoused was Jochebed, who is called "a daughter of Levi." Her immediate descent from Levi seems to be confirmed (Exodus 6:20) by the special mention of her relationship to Amram previous to their marriage; and it has been supposed, from the repeated notice of this circumstance, that there was a peculiarity in their matrimonial connection-that, in fact, it came within those degrees which, though permitted in the early times of the patriarchs, were prohibited under the Mosaic law (Leviticus 18:12). There are chronological difficulties, however, lying in the way of this interpretation. If Jochebed were There are chronologi

1._And there went. _I have preferred rendering the verb in the pluperfect tense (abierat, “there had gone”) to prevent all ambiguity; for unless we say that Miriam and Aaron were the children of another mother, it would not be probable otherwise that this marriage was contracted after the passing of the edict. Aaron was three years old when Moses was born; and we may easily conjecture that he was brought up openly and securely. But there is no doubt but that the cruelty was greatest at its commencement. Therefore, if they were uterine brothers, there is no other explanation except to say that, by the figure called ὕστερον πρότερον, he now relates what had happened before. But mention is only made of Moses, because it then first began to be criminal to breed up male infants. The Hebrews use the word for going or departing, to signify the undertaking of any serious or momentous matter, or...

1-4 Observe the order of Providence: just at the time when Pharaoh's cruelty rose to its height by ordering the Hebrew children to be drowned, the deliverer was born. When men are contriving the ruin of the church, God is preparing for its salvation. The parents of Moses saw he was a goodly child. A lively faith can take encouragement from the least hint of the Divine favour. It is said, Hebrews 11:23, that the parents of Moses hid him by faith; they had the promise that Israel should be preserved, which they relied upon. Faith in God's promise quickens to the use of lawful means for obtaining mercy. Duty is ours, events are God's. Faith in God will set us above the fear of man. At three months' end, when they could not hide the infant any longer, they put him in an ark of bulrushes by the river's brink, and set his sister to watch. And if the weak affection of a mother were thus carefu...

CHAPTER II _Amram and Jochebed marry_, 1. _Moses is born, and is hidden by his mother three months_, 2. _Is exposed in an ark of bulrushes on the riser Nile, and watched_ _by his sister_, 3, 4. _He is found by the daughter of Pharaoh, who commits him to the_ _care of his own mother, and has him educated as her own son_, 5-9. _When grown up, he is brought to Pharaoh's daughter, who receives_ _him as her own child, and calls him_ Moses, 10. _Finding an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, he kills the Egyptian, and_ hides him in the sand

A MAN ... A DAUGHTER OF LEVI - Amram and Jochebed. See Exodus 6:20....

EXPOSITION. Exodus 2:1. THE BIRTH, ESCAPE, AND EDUCATION OF MOSES. Some years before the Pharaoh issued his edict for the general destruction of the Hebrew male children, Amram of the tribe of Levi, had married Jochebed, his kinswoman (Exodus 6:20). They had already had two children — Miriam, a daughter, born probably soon after the marriage, and Aaron, a son, born some twelve years later. Soon after the issue of the edict, Jochebed gave birth to her third child, a son, who therefore came under its terms. Knowing as she did what fate was in store for him, if his existence became known to the Egyptians, she "hid him three months." Then, despairing of being able to keep him concealed much longer, she devised the plan related in...

AND THERE WENT A MAN OF THE HOUSE OF LEVI,.... This man was Amram, the son of Kohath, and grandson of Levi, as appears from Exodus 6:18 AND TOOK TO WIFE A DAUGHTER OF LEVI; one of the same house, family, or tribe; which was proper, that the tribes might be kept distinct: this was Jochebed, said to be his father's sister, Exodus 6:20: her name in Josephus s is Joachebel, which seems to be no other than a corruption of Jochebed, but in the Targum in 1 Chronicles 4:18 she is called Jehuditha. s Antiqu. l. 2. c. 9. sect. 4....

2. MOSES THE CHOSEN DELIVERER CHAPTER 2 Moses: His Birth, Education, Choice, and Exile _ 1. His birth and concealment (Exodus 2:1)_ 2. His rescue and education (Exodus 2:5) 3. His choice and failure (Exodus 2:11) 4. His exile (Exodus 2:15) 5. His marriage (Exodus 2:21) 6. The answered cry (Exodus 2:23) The history of the chosen deliverer, recorded by himself under the guidance of the Spirit, follows the dark picture of Israel

EXODUS 2:1 TO EXODUS 4:31. PREPARATION AND CALL OF MOSES. Exodus 2:1 E. His Birth and Upbringing. If the text can be trusted, we are informed that a man of the house of Levi took (to wife) the (only) daughter of Levi (_cf. Exodus 6:20_, Numbers 26:59 P), who would thus be, according to the genealogy of P, his aunt, or the sister of his father Kohath. Possibly, however, the text has been abridged, and ran, as LXX with some variations suggests, took one of the daughters of Levi to wife and made her his own (lit. had her). It is implied in...

THE CHILD MOSES. -- Exodus 2:1-10. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ The Lord is thy keeper._ -- Psalms 121:5. TIME. --The Birth of Moses is placed about B. C. 1571. PLACES. --Probably the city of Zoan, also called Tanis, situated on. branch of the Nile. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Exodus 1:12-22; Psalms 121:1-8; Hebrews 11:24-27. LESSON ANALYSIS. --1. _The Babe in the Ark;_ 2. _The Daughter of Pharaoh;_ 3. _The Son of Pharaoh's Daughter._ INTRODUCTION. It should be noted tha