Exodus 2:1
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now a man of the house of Levi married a daughter of Levi,
- KJV
- And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
- WEB
- A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
- ASV
- And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
- DARBY
- And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.
- BLB
- And a man from the house of Levi went, and he took a daughter of Levi.
- ÅB
- Så var det en mann av Levis hus som gikk bort og tok en Levis datter til ekte.
- OTB
- Nå gikk en mann fra Levis stamme og giftet seg med en levittisk kvinne.
- B1930
- Så var det en mann av Levis hus som gikk bort og tok en Levis datter til ekte.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 26:59
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.
Read in contextExodus 6:16–20
And 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.
Read in context1 Chronicles 23:12–14
The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
Read in context1 Chronicles 6:1–3
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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