Exodus 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

EXODUS CHAPTER 2 Moses's parentage and birth, Exodus 2:1,2. His mother makes an ark, puts him therein, Exodus 2:3. Pharaoh's daughter going to wash herself, seeth him, takes him for her own child, and gives him to his mother to nurse, Exodus 2:4-9. Moses seeing an Israelite wronged by an Egyptian, kills him, Exodus 2:11,12. Pharaoh hearing this, seeks to slay Moses; he flees to Midian, Exodus 2:15. There he rescues Reuel's daughters from the violence of the shepherds, Exodus 2:17; serves Reuel, and marries his daughter Zipporah, Exo 21. She bears him a son, his name, and the reason of it, Exodus 2:22. God heareth the cry of the Israelites, Exodus 2:23-25. There went a man, viz. Amram, Exodus 6:20 Numbers 26:58,59 from the place of his abode to another place for the following purpose. A daughter of Levi, namely Jochebed, Numbers 26:59, called a daughter, not strictly, but more largely, to wit, a grandchild, as the words father and son are oft used for a grandfather and a grandson, as hath been showed before: And so the word sister, Exodus 6:20, is to be taken largely, as brother is oft used for a cousin. This seems more probable than that an Israelite should marry his own sister, which even heathens by the light of nature have condemned, especially now when he had such abundant choice elsewhere.