Exodus 6:18

18 And the sons of Kohath [are] Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath [were] {one hundred and thirty-three years}.

Exodus 6:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 6:18

And the sons of Kohath, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and
Uzziel
So they are reckoned in ( 1 Chronicles 6:18 ) though only the family of the Hebronites are mentioned in ( Numbers 26:58 )

and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty three
years.
A Jewish chronologer says F6 he died one hundred years before the going out of Egypt: just the same number of years is ascribed to him by Polyhistor from Demetrius, an Heathen historian F7.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 Shalshalet Hakabalaut, ut supra. (fol. 5. 1.)
F7 Apud Euseb. ut supra. (Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425.)

Exodus 6:18 In-Context

16 And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi [were] {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.
17 The sons of Gershon [are] Libni and Shimei according to their clans.
18 And the sons of Kohath [are] Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath [were] {one hundred and thirty-three years}.
19 And the sons of Merari [are] Mahli and Mushi. These [are] clans of the Levites according to their genealogies.
20 And Amram took Jochebed his aunt for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Aaron and Moses, and the years of the life of Amram [were] {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "three and thirty and hundred of year"
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