TESTAMENT OF LEVI
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(William Wake and Solomon Caesar Malan version)


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3. 51  
And Kohath was born in the thirty-fifth year of my life, towards sunrise.
3. 52  
And I saw in a vision that he was standing on high in the midst of all the congregation.
3. 53  
Therefore I called his name Kohath which is, beginning of majesty and instruction.
3. 54  
And she bare me a third son, in the fortieth year of my life; and since his mother bare him with difficulty, I called him Merari, that is, 'my bitterness,' because he also was like to die.
3. 55  
And Jochebed was born. in Egypt, in my sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned then in the midst of my brethren.
3. 56  
And Gersam took a wife, and she bare to him Lomni and Semei. And the sons of Kohath, Ambram, Issachar, Hebron, and Ozeel. And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Mouses.
3. 57  
And in the ninety-fourth year Ambram took Jochebed my daughter to him to wife, for they were born in one day, he and my daughter.
3. 58  
Eight years old was I when I went into the land of Canaan, and eighteen years when I slew Shechem, and at nineteen years I became priest, and at twenty-eight years I took a wife, and at forty-eight I went into Egypt.
3. 59  
And behold, my children, ye are a third generation. In my hundred and eighteenth year Joseph died.


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