Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 6:16
The years of the life of Levi - "Bishop Patrick observes that Levi is thought to have lived the longest of all Jacob's sons, none of whose ages are recorded in Scripture but his and Joseph's, whom Levi survived twenty-seven years, though he was much the elder brother. By the common computation this would be twenty-three years: by Kennicott's computation at the end of Genesis 31. (See Clarke's note at Genesis 31:55 ;) Levi's birth is placed twenty-four years before that of Joseph; his... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 6:25
And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife ,.... This was Aaron's eldest son. The person, whose daughter he married, Dr. Lightfoot F13 Works, vol. 1. p. 704, 705. conjectures was an Egyptian convert, perhaps of the posterity of Potipherah, among whom Joseph had sowed the seeds of true religion, and supposes that the Egyptians used the name of Puti or Poti, either in memorial of their uncle Put, Genesis 10:6 or in reverence of some deity of that name; but... read more