Misinterpretations often arise from assuming the marriage between Amram, Levi's grandson through Kohath, and Jochebed, Levi's daughter, constitutes forbidden incest, ignoring that such close-kin unions were permissible before the Mosaic laws in Leviticus 18 explicitly prohibited them and were not uncommon in early biblical genealogies; others erroneously question the timeline, claiming contradictions with Moses' age at the Exodus, but the verse focuses solely on lineage without implying generational overlaps beyond patriarchal longevity norms.
Numbers 26:59
King James Version (1769)
59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
This verse provides a key genealogical detail in the wilderness census, identifying Jochebed, Levi's daughter, as the wife of Amram and mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam, thereby affirming their pure Levitical descent which qualified Aaron for the priesthood and Moses for leadership, emphasizing God's sovereign choice of family lines to fulfill His redemptive purposes for Israel.