Levites, The

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• Genesis 29:34 OT

  She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

• Hebrews 7:9 NT

  We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

• Hebrews 7:10 NT

  for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

• Genesis 49:5 OT

  “Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

• Genesis 49:7 OT

  Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

• Deuteronomy 33:8-11 OT

  About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah. He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge…

• Numbers 3:17 OT

  These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

• 1 Chronicles 6:16-48 OT

  The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the…

• Numbers 1:47-49 OT

  But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them. For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

• Numbers 3:14-16 OT

  Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, “Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.” Moses counted them according to Yahweh’s word, as…

• Numbers 3:39 OT

  All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

• Numbers 3:18 OT

  These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

• Numbers 3:21 OT

  Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites.

• Numbers 3:22 OT

  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 3:19 OT

  The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

• Numbers 3:27 OT

  Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These are the families of the Kohathites.

• Numbers 3:28 OT

  According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

• Numbers 3:20 OT

  The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

• Numbers 3:33 OT

  Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

• Numbers 3:34 OT

  Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

• 1 Chronicles 15:2 OT

  Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”

• Numbers 3:6 OT

  “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

• Numbers 8:6 OT

  “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

• Numbers 8:14 OT

  Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.