Creation & Patriarchs
Birth of Levi
Birth of Levi is dated ≈ 1926 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1756 BC in the Traditional. It is told in Genesis 29:34. Levi (patriarch), Jacob (Israel), Leah are part of it.
Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
- a Levi sounds like the Hebrew for being attached to or feeling affection for.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- ≈ 1926 BC (placed between the dated events around it)
- Traditional reckoning
- 1756 BC
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Which verses connect to Genesis 29:34?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Exodus 32:26–295 votes
So Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him. He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’” …
- Genesis 49:5–74 votes
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence. May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim. …
- Genesis 34:253 votes
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 35:233 votes
The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- Genesis 46:113 votes
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 2:13 votes
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.