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A Man of the house of Levi] The Levite was called Amram: and of Amram it is said, Chap. 6. 20. that he tooke him Jachebed (his fathers sister) to wife: which mariage may seeme to be incestuous: but (in that place) the word sister may be taken for a kinswoman, as the word Brother is taken for a kinsman, Genesis 13:8. and Chap. 14. vers. 12. 14. of the same book compared: and if she were indeed his fathers Sister, or his Aunt, such mariages were then tolerated, while there were but a few of a Tribe; but afterwards, (viz. about an hundred years after, (for Moses was eighty yeares old and Aaron eighty three, when they stood before Pharaoh) they were fordidden, Leviticus 18:12.

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