# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 27: Levi 11

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/27 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**27:1** Therefore, when I took a wife I was twenty-eight years old, and her name was Melcha.

**27:2** And she conceived and bare a son, and she called his name Gersham, for we were sojourners in our land: for Gersham is interpreted sojourning.

**27:3** And I saw concerning him that he would not be in the first rank.

**27:4** And Kohath was born in my thirty-fifth year, towards the east.

**27:5** And I saw in a vision that he was standing on high in the midst of all the congregation.

**27:6** Therefore I called his name Kohath, which meaneth, beginning of majesty and instruction.

**27:7** And thirdly, she bare to me Merari, in the fortieth year of my life; and since his mother bare him with difficulty, she called him Merari, which meaneth my bitterness, because he also died.

**27:8** And Jochebed was born in my sixty-fourth year, in Egypt, for I was renowned then in the midst of my brethren.

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