The years of the life of Levi, &c.— 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. Kohath, the second sort of Levi, according to Archbishop Usher, was thirty years old when Jacob came into Egypt; and lived there a hundred and thirty-three years: and his son Amram, Moses's father, 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. See Exodus 6:23 comp. Numbers 1:7; Numbers 2:3.
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Exodus 6:16
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.