Exodus 6:16

Nova Vulgata

Et haec nomina filiorum Levi per cognationes suas: Gerson et Caath et Merari; anni autem vitae Levi fuerunt centum triginta septem.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Fenestram in arca facies, et in cubito consummabis summitatem ejus : ostium autem arcæ pones ex latere ; deorsum, cœnacula et tristega facies in ea.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et hæc nomina filiorum Levi per cognationes suas: Gerson, et Caath, et Merari. Anni autem vitæ Levi fuerunt centum triginta septem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sons: Genesis 46:11, Numbers 3:17, 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:16

Kohath: Numbers 26:57, 1 Chronicles 23:6

an hundred: Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:20, Genesis 35:28, Genesis 47:28, Genesis 50:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:4 - the generations Exodus 2:1 - of the house Numbers 17:3 - General Joshua 21:5 - General Joshua 21:6 - General 1 Chronicles 6:43 - Gershom 1 Chronicles 15:4 - the children of Aaron 2 Chronicles 29:12 - Kohathites Ecclesiastes 1:4 - One generation Zechariah 12:13 - Levi Revelation 7:7 - Levi

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations,.... Whose sons, according to the order of their birth, were as follow:

Gershom, and Kohath, and Merari; see Genesis 46:11:

and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty seven years; and exactly the same number of years is assigned him by Polyhistor from Demetrius c, an Heathen writer. Jarchi says, that the reason why, the years of the life of Levi are reckoned is to show how long the bondage lasted; for there was no servitude as long as any of the tribes (or of the sons of Jacob) remained, according to Exodus 1:6 and the Jewish chronologers d affirm that Levi was the last of the patriarchs that died; and that he died in the year of the world 3332, and lived in Egypt ninety four years; and from his time, to the going out of Egypt, were only one hundred and sixteen years; and they further say the bondage could not last longer than one hundred and sixteen years, nor shorter than eighty seven. Bishop Usher e places his death in A. M. 2385, and before Christ 1619: according to the Targum of Jonathan, he lived to see Moses and Aaron the deliverers of Israel; but that is false, since Joseph and all his brethren died before Moses was born, Exodus 1:6.

c Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425. d Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 5. 1. Tzemach David, par. 1, fol. 6. 2. & 7. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3. p. 9. e Annales Vet. Test. p. 17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 6:16. The years of the life of Levi — "Bishop Patrick observes that Levi is thought to have lived the longest of all Jacob's sons, none of whose ages are recorded in Scripture but his and Joseph's, whom Levi survived twenty-seven years, though he was much the elder brother. By the common computation this would be twenty-three years: by Kennicott's computation at the end of Gen. xxxi., (Exodus 6:16- :) Levi's birth is placed twenty-four years before that of Joseph; his death, therefore, would be only three years later. But this is not the only difficulty in ancient chronologies. Kohath, the second son of Levi, according to Archbishop Usher was thirty years old when Jacob came into Egypt, and lived there one hundred and three years. He attained to nearly the same age with Levi, to one hundred and thirty-three years; and his son Amram, the father of Moses, lived to the same age with Levi. We may observe here how the Divine promise, Genesis 15:16, of delivering the Israelites out of Egypt in the fourth generation was verified; for Moses was the son of Amram, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Jacob." - DODD.