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Levi and Moses
How Levi and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Levi was an ancestor of Moses.
Moses descended from Levi through Kohath and Amram, and his mother was a daughter of Levi. Exodus opens his story with "a man of the house of Levi" who "took to wife a daughter of Levi".
these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath
Exodus 6:16, King James Version
And the sons of Kohath; Amram
Exodus 6:18, King James Version
she bare him Aaron and Moses
Exodus 6:20, King James Version
there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi
Exodus 2:1, King James Version
Where they cross: Exodus 6:16-20
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Exodus 2:1
1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
Exodus 6:16-20
16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
18And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
19And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
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.
King James Version