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Exodus 6:16 KJV
Exodus · chapter 6 · verse 16
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.Exodus 6:16 · King James Version
Exodus 6:16 in context
14These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
15And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
16And 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.
17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
18And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationstôwlᵉdâhdescentH8435 →
- GershonGêrᵉshôwnGereshon or Gereshom, an IsraeliteH1648 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- KohathQᵉhâthKehath, an IsraeliteH6955 →
- MerariMᵉrârîyMerari, an IsraeliteH4847 →
- namesshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
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I. We have here a genealogy, not an endless one, such as the apostle condemns (Ti1 1:4), for it ends in those two great patriots Moses and Aaron, and comes in here to show that they were Israelites, bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh whom they were sent to deliver, raised up unto them of their brethren, as…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-30