People’s Open Bible
Testament of Levi 12
Levi Records His Genealogies
Open in the reader →1And Gersam took a wife, and she bore to him Lomne and Semee.
2And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Issachar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
3And the sons of Merari were Mooli and Moses.
4And in the ninety-fourth year of my life, Abraham took Jochebed my daughter as a wife for himself, because he and my daughter were born on one and the same day.
5I was eight years old when I entered the land of Canaan, and eighteen years old when I killed Shechem, and nineteen years old when I served as priest, and twenty-eight years old when I took a wife, and forty-eight years old when I entered Egypt.
6And behold, my children, you are the third generation.
7Joseph died in the one hundred eighteenth year of my life.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project