Exodus 6:16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et hæc nomina filiorum Levi per cognationes suas : Gerson, et Caath, et Merari. Anni autem vitæ Levi fuerunt centum triginta septem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν υἱῶν Λευεὶ κατὰ συγγενίας αὐτῶν· Γεδσὼν καὶ Καὰθ καὶ Μεραρεί· καὶ τὰ ἔτη τῆς ζωῆς Λευεὶ ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα ἑπτά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֵ֨לֶּה שְׁמ֤וֹת בְּנֵֽי לֵוִי֙ לְתֹ֣לְדֹתָ֔ם גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן וּקְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִ֑י וּשְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י לֵוִ֔י שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים וּמְאַ֖ת שָׁנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Levi died the last of his brethren, and Joseph the first. (Worthington)
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
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter XXIV
“These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.” We are aware of the reading which is found in almost all the copies, “These things were done in Bethany.” This appears, moreover, to have been the reading at an earlier time; and in Heracleon we read “Bethany.” We are convinced, however, that we should not read “Bethany,” but “Bethabara.” We have visited the places to enquire as to the footsteps of Jesus and His disciples, and of the prophets. Now, Bethany, as the same evangelist tells us, was the town of Lazarus, and of Martha and Mary; it is fifteen stadia from Jerusalem, and the river Jordan is about a hundred and eighty stadia distant from it. Nor is there any other place of the same name in the neighbourhood of the Jordan, but they say that Bethabara is pointed out on the banks of the Jordan, and that John is said to have baptized there. …