King James Version
Exodus 2:1 in the King James Version says “And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.”
Exodus 2:1 · KJV
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“a man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“of the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“to wife a daughter”
H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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