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Numbers 26:59

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and 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

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This verse in Numbers 26

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
whom her mother bare - literally, “whom she bare;” the subject is wanting, and the verb is in the feminine gender. The words “her mother” are merely conjectural. The text is probably imperfect.

This site's exposition

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites

on Numbers 26:57-62

Levi is counted apart, as in chapter 3, and by another rule, every male from a month old and upward rather than every man of twenty able to fight. Verse 62 gives the reason in the same breath, that there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. The roll stops at Amram's house to name Jochebed, and at Aaron's to record that Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire, which Leviticus 10:1-2 tells. Levi comes to twenty and three thousand, a thousand more than at Sinai.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְשֵׁ֣ם׀and [the] name of

    veshemH8034 →864 times

  • אֵ֣שֶׁת[the] wife of

    ʾeshetH802 →781 times

  • עַמְרָ֗םAmram

    ʾamramH6019 →14 times

  • יוֹכֶ֙בֶד֙[was] Jochebed

    yokhevedH3115 →

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323 →588 times

  • לֵוִ֔יLevi

    leviH3878 →59 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יָלְדָ֥הsomeone bore

    yaldahH3205 →496 times

  • אֹתָ֛הּ<obj.> her

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • לְלֵוִ֖יto Levi

    leleviH3878 →59 times

  • בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםin Egypt

    bemitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וַתֵּ֣לֶדand she bore

    vateledH3205 →496 times

  • לְעַמְרָ֗םto Amram

    leamramH6019 →14 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַהֲרֹן֙Aaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מִרְיָ֥םMiriam

    miryamH4813 →15 times

  • אֲחֹתָֽם׃sister their

    ʾachotamH269 →114 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 2:1Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,21 worksExodus 2:4And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.9 worksExodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.7 worksExodus 6:20And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.6 worksExodus 2:7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”4 worksNumbers 20:1In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.3 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 23:13The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron and his descendants were set apart forever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister before Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name forever.2 worksLeviticus 18:12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.1 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 6:20

    And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 2:1–2

      Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,

    • Exodus 6:16

      These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

    • Exodus 6:18

      The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

  • Through

    Leviticus 18:12

    You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:19

      You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

    • Exodus 6:20

      And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 26 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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