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Family Record of Moses and Aaron
Then the Lord ordered Moses and Aaron to return to the people of Israel and to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, demanding that the people be permitted to leave.
These are the names of the heads of the clans of the various tribes of Israel:
The sons of Reuben, Israel's oldest son:
Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, Carmi.
The heads of the clans of the tribe of Simeon:
Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar,
Shaul (whose mother was a Canaanite).
These are the names of the heads of the clans of the tribe of Levi, in the order of their ages:
Gershon, Kohath, Merari.
(Levi lived 137 years.)
The sons of Gershon were:
Libni, Shime-i,
(and their clans).
The sons of Kohath:
Amram, Izhar,
Hebron, Uzziel.
(Kohath lived 133 years.)
The sons of Merari:
Mahli, Mushi.
The above are the families of the Levites, listed according to their ages.
And Amram married Jochebed, his father's sister; and Aaron and Moses were their sons.
Amram lived to the age of 137.
The sons of Izhar:
Korah, Nepheg, Zichri.
The sons of Uzziel:
Misha-el, Elzaphan, Sithri.
Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon. Their children were:
Nadab, Abihu,
Eleazar, Ithamar.
The sons of Korah:
Assir, Elkanah, Abiasaph.
These are the families within the clan of Korah.
Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Puti-el, and Phinehas was one of his children. These are all the names of the heads of the clans of the Levites, and the families within the clans.
Aaron and Moses, included in that list, are the same Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, "Lead all the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt," and who went to Pharaoh to ask permission to lead the people from the land, ...
TEXT SOURCE:
(Exodus 6:13-27) The Children's Living Bible, ©1970 Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton Illinois 60187
TITLE SOURCE: The New Student Bible, ©1992 Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan
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