Exodus 2:1

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The Birth of the Deliverer A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.

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  • Num 26:59 : 59 Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.
  • 1 Chr 6:1-3 : 1 Levi’s Descendants(5:27) The sons of Levi:Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 The sons of Kohath:Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 The children of Amram:Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.The sons of Aaron:Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
  • 1 Chr 23:12-14 : 12 The sons of Kohath:Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel– four in all. 13 The sons of Amram:Aaron and Moses.Aaron and his descendants were chosen on a permanent basis to consecrate the most holy items, to offer sacrifices before the LORD, to serve him, and to praise his name. 14 The descendants of Moses the man of God were considered Levites.
  • Exod 6:16-20 : 16 Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.(The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.) 17 The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei. 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.(The length of Kohath’s life was 133 years.) 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records. 20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.(The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

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  • 2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months.

  • Num 26:58-59
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    58These are the families of the Levites: 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. Kohath became the father of Amram.

    59Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.

  • 34She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi.

  • 1Levi’s Descendants(5:27) The sons of Levi:Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 20Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.(The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

  • 25Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas.These are the heads of the fathers’ households of Levi according to their clans.

  • Gen 24:37-38
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    70%

    37My master made me swear an oath. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

  • 11So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

  • 21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

  • 11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • 1Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

  • 13He must take a wife who is a virgin.

  • 61And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai(who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by that name).

  • Gen 38:1-2
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    69%

    1Judah and Tamar At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

    2There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. Judah acquired her as a wife and slept with her.

  • 2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • 16(6:1) The sons of Levi:Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Exod 1:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1¶ Blessing during Bondage in Egypt These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt– each man with his household entered with Jacob:

    2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

  • 24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

  • 7Micah Hires a Professional There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

  • 3So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

  • 15“Number the Levites by their clans and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.”

  • 21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

  • 13the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves–

  • 2“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

  • 13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

  • 23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

  • 6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • 2There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

  • 5Birth Announcement of John the Baptist During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

  • 1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

  • 1 Sam 1:1-2
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    68%

    1¶ Hannah Gives Birth to Samuel There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim. His name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

    2He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah and the name of the second was Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

  • 27“Then your servant my father said to us,‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

  • 9When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

  • 2“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

  • 12They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

  • 2Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

  • 23Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • 16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.