Exodus 2:1

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. ² The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. ³ When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank. ⁴ His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2432, bc 1572

of the house: Exodus 6:16-20, Numbers 26:59, 1 Chronicles 6:1-3, 1 Chronicles 23:12-14

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:34 - was Exodus 6:20 - Amram 1 Kings 11:17 - Hadad

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

Genesis 2:4
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.

Genesis 2:5
No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Genesis 2:8
Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

Exodus 20:11
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there went a man of the house of Levi,.... This man was Amram, the son of Kohath, and grandson of Levi, as appears from Exodus 6:18

and took to wife a daughter of Levi; one of the same house, family, or tribe; which was proper, that the tribes might be kept distinct: this was Jochebed, said to be his father's sister, Exodus 6:18- :: her name in Josephus s is Joachebel, which seems to be no other than a corruption of Jochebed, but in the Targum in 1 Chronicles 4:18 she is called Jehuditha.

s Antiqu. l. 2. c. 9. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A man ... a daughter of Levi - Amram and Jochebed. See Exodus 6:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

Amram and Jochebed marry, 1.

Moses is born, and is hidden by his mother three months, 2.

Is exposed in an ark of bulrushes on the riser Nile, and watched

by his sister, 3, 4.

He is found by the daughter of Pharaoh, who commits him to the

care of his own mother, and has him educated as her own son, 5-9.

When grown up, he is brought to Pharaoh's daughter, who receives

him as her own child, and calls him Moses, 10.

Finding an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, he kills the Egyptian, and

hides him in the sand, 11, 12.

Reproves two Hebrews that were contending together, one of whom

charges him with killing the Egyptian, 13, 14.

Pharaoh, hearing of the death of the Egyptian, sought to slay

Moses, who, being alarmed, escapes to the land of Midian, 15.

Meets with the seven daughters of Reuel, priest or prince of Midian,

who came to water their flocks, and assists them, 16, 17.

On their return they inform their father Reuel, who invites Moses

to his house, 18-20.

Moses dwells with him, and receives Zipporah his daughter to wife, 21.

She bears him a son whom he calls Gershom, 22.

The children of Israel, grievously oppressed in Egypt, cry for

deliverance, 23.

God remembers his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and

hears their prayer, 24, 25.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse Exodus 2:1. There went a man — Amram, son of Kohath, son of Levi, Exodus 6:16-20. A daughter of Levi, Jochebed, sister to Kohath, and consequently both the wife and aunt of her husband Amram, Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59. Such marriages were at this time lawful, though they were afterwards forbidden, Leviticus 18:12. But it is possible that daughter of Levi means no more than a descendant of that family, and that probably Amram and Jochebed were only cousin germans. As a new law was to be given and a new priesthood formed, God chose a religious family out of which the lawgiver and the high priest were both to spring.