Levi

And she conceived the third time, and bore another son, and said: Now also my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi.

And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the men.

And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

The sons of Lia: Ruben the first born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zabulon.

The sons of Levi: Gerson and Caath, and Merari.

Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity waging war.

Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of his own kindred.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven.

The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi by their families.

Then standing in the gate of the camp, he said: If any man be on the Lord's side, let him join with me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him:

And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.

Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

Bring the tribe of Levi, and make them stand in the sight of Aaron the priest to minister to him, and let them watch,

Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward.

And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath Merari.

Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families.

And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,

And putting fire in them to morrow, put incense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.

Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,

And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their families:

He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.

And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.

And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant: