Exodus 2:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

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  • Num 26:59 : 59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.
  • 1 Chr 6:1-3 : 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
  • 1 Chr 23:12-14 : 12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever. 14 And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.
  • Exod 6:16-20 : 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families. 18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three. 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations. 20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

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  • 2 And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.

  • Num 26:58-59
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    58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

    59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

  • 34 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

  • 1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

  • 25 And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their families.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    70%

    37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

    38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • 11 And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.

  • 21 And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

  • 11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

  • 2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • 1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

  • 13 And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

  • 61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    1 Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

    2 And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

  • 2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • 16 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Exod 1:1-2
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    68%

    1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.

    2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

  • 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

  • 7 Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

  • 3 So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.

  • 15 Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

  • 21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

  • 13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

  • 2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

  • 13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

  • 23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

  • 6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • 2 Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

  • 5 In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

  • 1 If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • 1 Sam 1:1-2
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    68%

    1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

    2 And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.

  • 27 And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

  • 9 When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

  • 2 Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

  • 12 And were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their property was kept in the tribe of their father's family

  • 2 The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

  • 23 And Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon; and she gave birth to Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.