Levi

And she conceiued againe and bare a sonne, and said, Now at this time wil my husband keepe mee company, because I haue borne him three sonnes: therefore was his name called Leui.

And on the thirde day (when they were sore) two of the sonnes of Iaakob, Simeon and Leui, Dinahs brethren tooke either of them his sworde and went into the citie boldly, and slue euery male.

Then Iaakob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me, and made me stinke among the inhabitats of the land, aswell the Canaanites, as the Perizzites, and and I being few in nomber, they shall gather theselues together against me, and slay me, and so shall I, and my house be destroied.

The sonnes of Leah: Reuben Iaakobs eldest sonne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Zebulun.

Also the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Simeon and Leui, brethren in euill, the instruments of crueltie are in their habitations.

Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah,

Then there went a man of the house of Leui, and tooke to wife a daughter of Leui,

These also are the names of the sonnes of Leui in their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari (and the yeres of the life of Leui were an hundreth thirtie and seuen yere)

Also the sonnes of Merari were Mahali and Mushi: these are ye families of Leui by their kinreds.

And Moses stoode in ye gate of the campe, and sayde, Who pertaineth to the Lord? let him come to mee. And all the sonnes of Leui gathered themselues vnto him.

So the children of Leui did as Moses had commanded: and there fel of the people the same day about three thousand men.

Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel:

Bring the tribe of Leui, and set the before Aaron the Priest that they may serue him,

Nomber the children of Leui after the houses of their fathers, in their families: euery male from a moneth olde and aboue shalt thou nomber.

And these are the sonnes of Leui by their names, Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

Take the summe of the sonnes of Kohath from among the sonnes of Leui, after their families, and houses of their fathers,

Nowe Korah the sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui went apart with Dathan, and Abiram the sonnes of Eliab, and On the sonne of Peleth, the sonnes of Reuben:

And put fire therein, and put incense in the before the Lord to morowe: and the man whome the Lord doeth chuse, the same shalbe holie: ye take too much vpon you, ye sonnes of Leui.

Againe Moses saide vnto Korah, Heare, I pray you, ye sonnes of Leui.

He hath also taken thee to him, and all thy brethren the sonnes of Leui with thee, and seeke ye the office of the Priest also?

And write Aarons name vpon the rod of Leui: for euery rodde shalbe for the head of the house of their fathers.

And when Moses on the morow went into the Tabernacle of the Testimonie, beholde, the rod of Aaron for the house of Leui was budded, and brought forth buddes, and brought forth blossoms, and bare ripe almondes.

And bring also with thee thy brethren of the tribe of Leui of ye familie of thy father, which shalbe ioyned with thee, and minister vnto thee: but thou, and thy sonnes with thee shall minister before the Tabernacle of the Testimonie:

For beholde, I haue giuen the children of Leui all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their seruice which they serue in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.