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Jochebed and Moses
How Jochebed and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Jochebed was a parent of Moses.
Jochebed, a daughter of Levi, bore Moses. Exodus 2 tells how his mother hid him three months, then nursed him for Pharaoh's daughter.
she bare him Aaron and Moses
Exodus 6:20, King James Version
Jochebed, the daughter of Levi
Numbers 26:59, King James Version
when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months
Exodus 2:2, King James Version
And the woman took the child, and nursed it
Exodus 2:9, King James Version
Where they cross: Exodus 6:20
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Exodus 2:2
2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Exodus 2:9
9And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
Exodus 6:20
20And 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.
Numbers 26:59
59And 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.
King James Version