Testament of Levi

Chapter 11

  1. 1 Therefore when I took a wife I was twenty-eight years old, and her name was Melcha. And she conceived and bare a son, and I called his name Gersam, for we were sojourners in our land
  2. 3 And I saw concerning him, that he would not be in the first rank, And Kohath was born in the
  3. 5 thirty-fifth year of my life, towards sunrise. And I saw in a vision that he was standing on high
  4. 6 in the midst of all the congregation, Therefore I called his name Kohath [which is, beginning of
  5. 7 majesty and instruction]. 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
  6. 8 like to die. And Jochebed was born in Egypt, in my sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned then in the midst of my brethren.