And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to
wife
This Amram was the first son of Kohath, and the father of Moses,
as after related, and so must be the same with the man of the
house of Levi, and his wife the daughter of Levi, as in (
Exodus 2:1 )
and though such a marriage was afterwards prohibited, Moses does
not conceal it, though it may seem to reflect some dishonour on
him and his family; he writing not for his own glory, but for the
sake of truth, and the good of mankind, and especially the church
and people of God. Indeed the Vulgate Latin version, and the
Septuagint, Samaritan, and Syriac versions, make her to be his
first cousin, the daughter of his father's brother, his uncle's
daughter: and so does Polyhistor from Demetrius F8; but in
( Numbers
26:59 ) , she is expressly said to be a daughter of Levi,
born to him in Egypt, and therefore must be his father's sister:
and she bare him Aaron and Moses:
and Miriam also, though not mentioned, it being for the sake of
these two that the genealogy is made:
and the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and
thirty seven
years:
just the age of his grandfather Levi, ( Exodus 6:16 ) . A
Jewish chronologer F9 says he died in the thirtieth year
of Moses: but the Arabic writers F11 say in the fifty sixth or
fifty seventh, and at the end of A. M. 3810. Polyhistor
F12 from Demetrius makes his age to be
one hundred and thirty six, and him to be the father of Moses and
Aaron, and Aaron to be three years older than Moses, exactly
according to the Scripture account.