Exodus 6:14–25
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The Ancestry of the Deliverer
6:1435 These are the heads of their fathers’ households:36
The sons37 of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans38 of Reuben.
6:15The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
6:16Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records:39 Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi’s life was 137 years.)
6:17The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei.
6:18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. (The length of Kohath’s life was 133 years.)
6:19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records.
6:20Amram married40 his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)
6:21The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zikri.
6:22The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
6:23Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.
6:25Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas.
These are the heads of the fathers’ households41 of Levi according to their clans.
Footnotes
- 35 This list of names shows that Moses and Aaron are in the line of Levi that came to the priesthood. It helps to identify them and authenticate them as spokesmen for God within the larger history of Israel. As N. M. Sarna observes, “Because a genealogy inherently symbolizes vigor and continuity, its presence here also injects a reassuring note into the otherwise despondent mood” (Exodus [], ).
- 36 The expression is literally “the house of their fathers.” This expression means that the household or family descended from a single ancestor. It usually indicates a subdivision of a tribe, that is, a clan, or the subdivision of a clan, that is, a family. Here it refers to a clan (S. R. Driver, Exodus, ).
- 37 Or “descendants.”
- 38 Or “families,” and so throughout the genealogy.
- 39 Or “generations.”
- 40 Heb “took for a wife” (also in vv. 23, 25).
- 41 Heb “heads of the fathers” is taken as an abbreviation for the description of “households” in v. 14.
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