The Levites were one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Different tribes had different places and roles in the Israelite society. Other tribes included the Tribe of Benjamin and the Tribe of Asher. After the completion of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, all these tribes settled in the Promise...
Chapter 6 -The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. The names of the sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei. The sons of Kohath were Amram,
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.Contemporary English VersionMerari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. All of the above were from the Levi tribe. English Revised VersionAnd the sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. These ...
The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe. For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, “Only the...
Now the first inhabitants who lived on their own property in their cities were people of Israel, including the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.NASB 1995Now the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites and the temple servants....
(Most of the people, priests, Levites, Temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants continued to live in their own homes in the various towns of Judah, 4 but some of the people from Judah and Benjamin resettled in Jerusalem.) From the tribe of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzzi...
62All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000.They were not countedalong with the other Israelites because they received no inheritanceamong them. 63These are the ones countedby Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moabby the Jordan acr...
The same division of the people into four classes was continued after, as before the captivity; namely, the priests, Levites, natives, who now were called by the common name of Israelites, and the Nethinims (Jos 9:27; Ezr 2:43; 8:20). When the historian speaks of "the first ...
His descendants were the Levites, a tribe of priests who had no land, and from whom Moses and his brother Aaron descended. In the New Testament, Levi was an alternate name for Matthew the Apostle. The name was largely used for Jewish boys, but Puritans began using it as well in the ...
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