11 1Therefore when I took a wife I was twenty-eight years old, and her name was Melcha. 2And she conceived and bare a son, and I called his name Gersam, for we were sojourners in our land, 3And I saw concerning him, that he would not be in the first rank, 4And Kohath was born in the thirty-fifth year of my life, towards sunrise. 5And I saw in a vision that he was standing on high in the midst of all the congregation, 6Therefore I called his name Kohath [which is, beginning of majesty and instruction]. 7And she bare me a third son, in the fortieth year of my life; and since his mother bare him with difficulty, I called him Merari, that is, 'my bitterness,' because he also was like to die. 8And Jochebed was born in Egypt, in my sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned then in the midst of my brethren.