Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,

Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of 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 Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,

And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.

And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.

Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;

Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.

But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.

These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

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

The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred.

But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi

These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

And by the help of our God they got for us Ish-sechel, one of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah with his sons and brothers, eighteen;

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

Give praise to the Lord, O sons of Levi: let all the worshippers of the Lord give him praise.

And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.

And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;

The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.

The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

The son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it;

Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: