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Amram Marries Jochebed. Amram married his aunt Jochebed in Egypt. She was Levi ’s daughter, and Kehot, Amram’s father, was Levi’s son. Amram and Jochebed had a daughter, Miriam, and two sons, Aaron and Moses.1. Later, G‑d would forbid marrying one’s aunt, but at that time it was still permitted.
New Living Translation. Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she gave birth to his sons, Aaron and Moses. (Amram lived to be 137 years old.) English Standard Version. Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.
Amram married his aunt, Jochebed, the sister of his father Kehath. In rabbinical and apocryphal literature. In the Apocryphal Testament of Levi, it is stated that Amram was born as a grandson of Levi when Levi was 64 years old.
Amram's wife Jochebed, who is merely spoken of in general terms as a daughter of Levi (a Levitess) in Exodus 2:1 and Numbers 26:59, is called here the דּודה "aunt" (father's sister) of Amram, a marriage which was prohibited in the Mosaic law (Leviticus 18:12), but was allowed before the giving of the law; so that there is no reason for ...
New International Version. 20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years. 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zikri. 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri. 23 Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu ...
Exodus 6:20-27. King James Version. 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years. 21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
A Levite, son of Kohath (prob. in the sense of descendant), the husband of Jochebed, and father of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ( Exod 6:18, 20; Num 3:19; 26:59; 1 Chron 6:3 ). The Amramites, descended from him, had special duties in the wilderness Tabernacle.
