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Selected Verse: Exodus 6:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ex 6:20 |
Strong Concordance |
And Amram [06019] took [03947] him Jochebed [03115] his father's sister [01733] to wife [0802]; and she bare [03205] him Aaron [0175] and Moses [04872]: and the years [08141] of the life [02416] of Amram [06019] were an hundred [03967] and thirty [07970] and seven [07651] years [08141]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife--The Septuagint and Syriac versions render it "his cousin." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Amram - This can scarcely be the same person who is mentioned in Exo 6:18; but his descendant and representative in the generation immediately preceding that of Moses. The intervening links are omitted, as is the rule where they are not needed for some special purpose, and do not bear upon the history.
Jochebed - The name means "the glory of Jehovah (Yahweh)," one clear instance of the use of the sacred name before the Exodus.
Father's sister - This was within the prohibited degrees after the law was given Lev 18:12 but not previously. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| His father's sister - That is, kins - woman. So the Hebrew word is frequently used. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
His father's sister - דדתו dodatho. The true meaning of this word is uncertain. Parkhurst observes that דוד dod signifies an uncle in Sa1 10:14; Lev 10:4, and frequently elsewhere. It signifies also an uncle's son, a cousin-german: compare Jer 32:8 with Exo 6:12, where the Vulgate renders דדי dodi by patruelis mei, my paternal cousin; and in Amo 6:10, for דודו dodo, the Targum has קריביה karibiah, his near relation. So the Vulgate, propinquus ejus, his relative, and the Septuagint, οἱ οικειοι αυτων, those of their household. The best critics suppose that Jochebed was the cousin-german of Amram, and not his aunt. See Clarke's note on Exo 2:1.
Bare him Aaron and Moses - The Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and one Hebrew MS. add, And Miriam their sister. Some of the best critics suppose these words to have been originally in the Hebrew text. |
12 Thou shalt not uncover [01540] the nakedness [06172] of thy father's [01] sister [0269]: she is thy father's [01] near kinswoman [07607].
18 And the sons [01121] of Kohath [06955]; Amram [06019], and Izhar [03324], and Hebron [02275], and Uzziel [05816]: and the years [08141] of the life [02416] of Kohath [06955] were an hundred [03967] thirty [07970] and three [07969] years [08141].
1 And there went [03212] a man [0376] of the house [01004] of Levi [03878], and took [03947] to wife a daughter [01323] of Levi [03878].
10 And a man's uncle [01730] shall take him up [05375], and he that burneth [05635] him, to bring out [03318] the bones [06106] out of the house [01004], and shall say [0559] unto him that is by the sides [03411] of the house [01004], Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say [0559], No [0657]. Then shall he say [0559], Hold thy tongue [02013]: for we may not make mention [02142] of the name [08034] of the LORD [03068].
12 And Moses [04872] spake [01696] before [06440] the LORD [03068], saying [0559], Behold, the children [01121] of Israel [03478] have not hearkened [08085] unto me; how then shall Pharaoh [06547] hear [08085] me [0589], who am of uncircumcised [06189] lips [08193]?
8 So Hanameel [02601] mine uncle's [01730] son [01121] came [0935] to me in the court [02691] of the prison [04307] according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], and said [0559] unto me, Buy [07069] my field [07704], I pray thee, that is in Anathoth [06068], which is in the country [0776] of Benjamin [01144]: for the right [04941] of inheritance [03425] is thine, and the redemption [01353] is thine; buy [07069] it for thyself. Then I knew [03045] that this was the word [01697] of the LORD [03068].
4 And Moses [04872] called [07121] Mishael [04332] and Elzaphan [0469], the sons [01121] of Uzziel [05816] the uncle [01730] of Aaron [0175], and said [0559] unto them, Come near [07126], carry [05375] your brethren [0251] from before [06440] the sanctuary [06944] out [02351] of the camp [04264].
14 And Saul's [07586] uncle [01730] said [0559] unto him and to his servant [05288], Whither [0575] went [01980] ye? And he said [0559], To seek [01245] the asses [0860]: and when we saw [07200] that they were no where [0369], we came [0935] to Samuel [08050].