And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
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Interpretation
Moses and Aaron were Israelites; raised up to them of their brethren, as Christ also should be, who was to be the Prophet and Priest, the Redeemer and Lawgiver of the people of Israel. Moses returns to his narrative, and repeats the charge God had given him to deliver his message to Pharaoh, and his objection against it.
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This thought runs through Exodus 6:16-20.
Glossary
- Amram Person
- Kindred of the High; i. e., “friend of Jehovah. ” (1. ) The son of Kohath, the son of Levi. He married Jochebed, “his father’s sister,” and was the father of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses ( Ex. 6:18 , 20; Num. 3:19 ).
- Jochebed Person
- Jehovah is her glory, the wife of Amram, and the mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses ( Num. 26:59 ). She is spoken of as the sister of Kohath, Amram’s father ( Ex. 6:20 ; comp. 16, 18; 2:1-10).