Levi

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

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on the LORD’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.

The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

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

“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”

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

“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.

and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom the LORD chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”

Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!

and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

You shall write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

On the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you; but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.