JOCHEBED

(Jochʹe·bed) [possibly, Jehovah Is Glory].

His mother Jochebed was Kohath’s sister. (See, however, JOCHEBED.)

It is stated that he married “his father’s sister” Jochebed, an act then allowable but later prohibited in the Mosaic Law. (Le 18:12)

Some translations, however, endeavor to show her to be his cousin. (See JOCHEBED.)

Concerning Moses’ parents, the Masoretic text reads: “Now Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister as his wife.” (Ex 6:20; Nu 26:59)

Such a marriage at that time was permissible, as it occurred over 80 years before the Law was given.​—See JOCHEBED.

Daughter of Amram and his wife Jochebed, both of the tribe of Levi; sister of Moses and Aaron. (Nu 26:59; 1Ch 6:1-3)

Being told to do so by Pharaoh’s daughter, “the maiden went and called the child’s mother” (Jochebed), who was thereafter employed to care for Moses until he grew up.​—Ex 2:5-10.

A son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi, born in Egypt in 1597 B.C.E.

The small chest in which Jochebed concealed her three-month-old “good-looking” baby later named Moses, and which was found by Pharaoh’s daughter among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

A son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi, born in Egypt in 1597 B.C.E.

The very name of Moses’ mother Jochebed means, possibly, “Jehovah Is Glory.” (Ex 6:20)