LEVIY

  Name: Levi

Hebrew Name: Leviy

 Father: Jacob

 Mother: Leah

 Birth: Date 1st Day, 1st Month, 6th Year, 3rd Week, 44th Jubilee , Levi born of Leah Jubilees 28:14

 Death: Goshen, Egypt  age 137 yrs old

 The Sons of Levi:  The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari

 Kohath Begat:  – Aaron – Moses - Miriam

Numbers: Sons one month old and upward 22.000.

 

 

   LEAH'S STATEMENT:

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. Gen 29:24

 

   JACOB BLESSES LEVI:

“Simeon and Levi are brothers; Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place.Let not my soul enter their council; Let not my honor be united to their assembly; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatter them in Israel.”

 

   MOSES BLESSES LEVI:

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Levi is the third son born to Jacob an Leah.  This is the tribe that brought us Moses,  and Aaron

 Levi  was not given land like his brothers because the Lord is his inheritance, according as the Lord thy God promised him.  Therefore, the children of Israel were Commanded that they give the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and the suburbs for the cities round  them.

Tithes

Tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer should be given to the Levites since they had no  inheritance. 

The Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among  the men of war age.  But their children from one month and over were counted.

 

Levi's sister Dinah is Raped

Levi's sister Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. Shechem fell in love with her and  asked Jacob and her brothers if he could marry her.

 

The Circumcision

They told him they would agree to the marriage if every male in the city would be circumcised,  But if they do not agree  then  they would take Dinah and leave.  So  Hamor and  Shechem agreed and  every male in the city  was circumcised.

 

Levi & Simeon kill Hamor and Shechem

On the third day, when the men  were sore,  Levi and Simeon slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and left. The sons of Jacob raveshed the city, because they had defiled their sister.  They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, and all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

Read the Full Story of Dinah Here

 

Levi Moves to Egypt with his Father and Family

 

Three Thousand Slayed In The Wilderness

When Moses saw that the people were naked in the wilderness he stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 

And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.  Exodus 23:25-27

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Exodus 23:28

 

Levites Appointed over the Tabernacle and Arc of the Covenant

For the Lord had spoken unto Moses saying "Thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle."  Numbers 1:48-50

And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

 

Do Not Forsake the Levite

Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. Deu 12:19

 

Some Levites went Astray

Thus saith the Lord God; "No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.  And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity."    Ezekiel  44:10

 

 

 

Excerpt:   The copy of the words of Levi

The things which he ordained unto his sons, according to all that  they should do, and what things should befall them until the day of judgement. He was sound in health when he called them to him; for it had been revealed to him that he should die. And when they were gathered together he said to them

 I came with my father to Shechem. And I was young, about  twenty years of age, when, with Simeon, I wrought vengeance on Hamor for our sister Dinah.

 

 Levi's Dream

Then there fell upon me a sleep, and I beheld a high mountain, and  I was upon it. And behold the heavens were opened and an angel of God said to me, Levi enter  And I entered from the first heaven, and I saw there a great sea hanging And further I saw a second heaven far brighter and more brilliant, for there was a boundless light also therein.

 And I said to the angel, Why Is this so? And the angel said to me, Marvel not at this, for thou shalt see another heaven more brilliant and incomparable. And when thou hast ascended thither, Thou shalt stand near the Lord, And shalt be His minister, And shalt declare His mysteries to men, And shall proclaim concerning Him that shall redeem Israel.

 

 Levi & Judah Called

 And by thee and Judah shall the Lord appear among men Saving every race of men. And from the Lord's portion shall be thy life, And He shall be thy field and vineyard, And fruits, gold, and silver.

 

 Man Judged

 Now, therefore, know that the Lord shall execute judgment upon the sons of men. Because when the rocks are being rent, And the sun quenched, And the waters dried up, And the fire cowering, And all creation troubled, And the invisible spirits melting away; And Hades taketh spoils through the visitations of the Most High, Men will be unbelieving and persist in their iniquity. On this account with punishment shall they be judged  

Therefore the Most High hath heard thy prayer, To separate thee from iniquity, and that thou shouldst become to Him a son, And a servant, and a minister of His presence.

The light of knowledge shalt thou light up in Jacob, And as the sun shalt thou be to all the seed of Israel. And there shall be given to thee a blessing, and to all thy seed, Until the Lord shall visit all the Gentiles in His tender mercies for ever. And therefore there have been given to thee counsel and understanding, That thou mightst instruct thy sons concerning this; Because they that bless Him shall be blessed, And they that curse Him shall perish.

 

 Israel is  a Light

The light of knowledge shalt thou light up in Jacob, And as the sun shalt thou be to all the seed of Israel

And there shall be given to thee a blessing, and to all thy seed, Until the Lord shall visit all the Gentiles in His tender mercies for ever. And therefore there have been given to thee counsel and understanding, That thou mightst instruct thy sons concerning this; Because they that bless Him shall be blessed, And they that curse Him shall perish.

 

  Death of Levi

The Lord is witness, and His angels are witnesses, and ye are witnesses, and I am witness, concerning the word  of your mouth. And his sons said unto him: We are witnesses. And thus Levi ceased commanding his sons; and he stretched out his feet on the bed, and was gathered to his fathers, after he had  lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. And they laid him in a coffin, and afterwards theyburied him in Hebron, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

 

"Testament of the Twelve Patriachs" by R. H. Charles

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