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 was his name called Levi.

It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that 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.

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 [men];

and put fire in them, and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow: and 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? and 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.

It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring 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.

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. Kohath became the father of Amram.

The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD your God spoke to him.)

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.

The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

"These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you strove at the waters of Meribah;

Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi. The offerings of the LORD, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

These are the children 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.

who were previously stationed at the king's gate on the east: they were the gatekeepers for the camp of the children of Levi.

Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of ancestral houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

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:

I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers, and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.

The sons of Levi, heads of ancestral houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

House of Levi, praise the LORD. You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD.

and the room whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to the LORD to minister to him."

and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;

You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of hosts.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD offerings in righteousness.

And as he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he arose and followed 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,

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me."

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,