Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Exodus Genealogical Chronology: Levi - Moses




*Below are the footnotes that correspond with my Biblical chronology chart above.

1) 1446 B.C. (Exodus) + 215 years in Egypt = 1661 B.C. was the year that Jacob moved his family into the land of Goshen. Subtract 17 years (Gen. 47:28) from 1661 B.C and you end up with the year Jacob died in 1644 B.C.

2) Joseph was born 14 years after Jacob arrived in Haran (Gen. 30:25; 31:41).

3) Levi was the third son of Jacob through Leah (Gen. 29:34). It seems likely that he was born in 1705 B.C. because when Jacob first arrived in Haran (1714 B.C.) he did not marry Leah until 7 years later (1707 B.C.) after he had finished his first term of work. Within the next 7 years Leah had 7 children which are all born before Joseph’s birth in 1700 B.C. This makes sense with the passage as it says multiple times that God “saw Leah and opened her womb…” (Gen. 29:31-35; 30:17-21). The order could possibly have happened like this: Reuben (1707 B.C.), Simeon (1706 B.C.), Levi (1705 B.C.), Judah (1704 B.C.), Issachar (1702 B.C), Zebulun (1701 B.C.), and finally Dinah (1700 B.C.). 1703 B.C. could have been the time when she had stopped bearing children as expressed in Genesis 30:9.

4) We are not sure exactly when Kohath was born but we do know that he was born sometime before the family sojourned into Egypt (Gen. 46:11). It seems with the order of the names listed that Merari may have been his younger brother. If that was the case and they were from the same woman, then Kohath would at least be around 2 years old at the time of departure. This is why Kohath had to be born in or before the year 1662 B.C. because it was the next year that they made the great journey into Egypt in 1661 B.C. It is unlikely that he would have been born before 1690 B.C.

5) Amram was born in Egypt but we are unsure of when that was.

6) Amram could have died in Egypt or he could have potentially left with the Israelites in the mass Exodus. There is no clear indication given.

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