Exodus 2:1
After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Egressus est post hæc vir de domo Levi : et accepit uxorem stirpis suæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἦν δέ τις ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Λευεὶ ὃς ἔλαβεν τῶν θυγατέρων Λευεί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ אִ֖ישׁ מִבֵּ֣ית לֵוִ֑י וַיִּקַּ֖ח אֶת בַּת לֵוִֽי
Haydock's commentary
After this. In process of time, without reference to what immediately precedes. The Hebrew and Septuagint omit these words. (Haydock)
The marriage of Amram, grandson of Levi, with his aunt or cousin, had taken place before the persecution. Tostat and others suppose, that people were not then forbidden to marry their aunts. But it is probable Jochabed was only the grand-daughter of Levi, and the daughter of one of Amram's brothers, as the Septuagint insinuate. Otherwise their ages would have been very disproportionate. See chap. vi. 20. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXVIII
34. “And He rejected,” he saith, “the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim He chose not” ( ver. 68 ). “And He chose the tribe of Judah” ( ver. 69 ). He hath not said, He rejected the tabernacle of Reuben, who was the first-born son of Jacob; nor them that follow, and precede Judah in order of birth; so that they being rejected and not chosen, the tribe of Judah was chosen. For it might have been said that they were deservedly rejected; because even in the blessing of Jacob wherewith he blessed his sons, he mentioneth their sins, and deeply abhorreth them; though among them the tribe of Levi merited to be the priestly tribe, whence also Moses was. …