Exodus Chapter 2 verse 1 Holy Bible
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.
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And a man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi.
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and married a daughter of Levi.
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A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
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And there goeth a man of the house of Levi, and he taketh the daughter of Levi,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-10. - THE BIRTH, ESCAPE, AND EDUCATION OF MOSES. Some years before the Pharaoh issued his edict for the general destruction of the Hebrew male children, Amram of the tribe of Levi, had married Jochebed, his kinswoman (Exodus 6:20). They had already had two children - Miriam, a daughter, born probably soon after the marriage, and Aaron, a son, born some twelve years later. Soon after the issue of the edict, Jochebed gave birth to her third child, a son, who therefore came under its terms. Knowing as she did what fate was in store for him, if his existence became known to the Egyptians, she "hid him three months." Then, despairing of being able to keep him concealed much longer, she devised the plan related in vers. 3-4, which proved successful. Verse 1. - There went a man. The Hebrew language is deficient in tenses, and cannot mark pluperfect time. The meaning is, that "a man of the house of Levi had gone, some time before, and taken to wife a daughter of Levi." Miriam must have been fourteen or fifteen at the time of the exposure of Moses. By a daughter of Levi, we must not understand an actual daughter, which is irreconcilable with the chronology, but one of Levi's descendants - "a wife of the daughters of Levi," as the LXX. translates.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersII.THE BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND EARLY LIFE OF MOSES.(1) There went.--Comp. Genesis 35:22; Hosea 1:3. The expression is idiomatic, and has no special force.A man of the house of Levi.--Note the extreme simplicity of this announcement; and compare it with the elaborate legends wherewith Oriental religions commonly surrounded the birth of those who were considered their founders, as Thoth, Zoroaster, Orpheus. Even the name of the man is here omitted as unimportant. It is difficult to conceive any one but Moses making such an omission.A daughter of Levi--i.e., a woman of the same tribe as himself, a descendant of Levi--not a daughter in the literal sense, which the chronology makes impossible.
