Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.
1. And there went. I have preferred rendering the verb in the pluperfect tense (abierat, “there had gone”) to prevent all ambiguity; for unless we say that Miriam and Aaron were the children of another mother, it would not be probable otherwise that this marriage was contracted after the passing of the edict.
This child was born at the very hour Pharaoh's cruelty reached its peak to murder Hebrew infants. What begins as the parents' deepest fear becomes their greatest joy. God prepares the deliverer in the shadow of the oppressor's rage.
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Commenting on Exodus 2:1-4
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 Exo 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; see Gill on...