“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.”
Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years. Moses' parents are finally named — Amram and Jochebed — and Jochebed is identified as Amram's aunt. The marriage of a nephew to his father's sister would later be prohibited in Leviticus 18:12, but the laws of Sinai had not yet been given. The biblical genealogies document what was, not always what would later be prescribed. The detail that Jochebed is Levi's daughter, born in Egypt according to Numbers 26:59, means she spans the generation of the descent into Egypt and the generation of the birth of the deliverer. She is a living bridge between the patriarchal era and the Exodus era. Hebrews 11:23 says Moses' parents hid him because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. The parents named in this genealogy are the parents who acted in faith.
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