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In the Book of Genesis, Levi is described as having fathered three sons — Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

A similar genealogy is given in the Book of Exodus, where it is added that among Kohath's sons was one — Amram — who married a woman named Jochebed, who was closely related to his father, and they were the biological parents of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ; though some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Torah state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, the masoretic text states that she was his father's sister, and the Septuagint mentions that she was one of his father's sisters.

The masoretic text's version of Levi's genealogy thus implies ( but doesn't state ) that Levi also had a daughter ( Jochebed ), and the Septuagint implies further daughters.

The names of Levi's sons, and possible daughter, are interpreted in classical rabbinical literature as being reflections on their future destiny.

In some apocryphal texts such as the Testament of Levi, and the Book of Jubilees, Levi's wife, his children's mother, is named as Milkah, a daughter of Aram.