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Exd 6:20 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Amram		Exd 2:1,2; Num 26:59
and the years		"The Samaritan, LXX., Syriac, and one Hebrew MS. add, ""And Miriam their sister;"" which some of the best critics suppose to have been originally in the text. Exd 6:16,18"

Correlating Passages

Amram

	Exd 2:1	And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took [to wife] a daughter of Levi.
	Exd 2:2	And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.
	Num 26:59	And the name of Amram's wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

and the years

	Exd 6:16	And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [were] an hundred thirty and seven years.
	Exd 6:18	And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath [were] an hundred thirty and three years.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 6:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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