Exodus 2:1
Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
BSB
ASV
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
KJV
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
There went a man - Amram, son of Kohath, son of Levi, Exo 6:16-20. A daughter of Levi, Jochebed, sister to Kohath, and consequently both the wife and aunt of her husband Amram, Exo 6:20; Num 26:59. Such marriages were at this time lawful, though they were afterwards forbidden, Lev 18:12. But it is possible that daughter of Levi means no more than a descendant of that family, and that probably Amram and Jochebed were only cousin germans.
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Numbers 26:59and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
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And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
