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| Name | LEVI |
| Aliases | THIRD SON OF LEAH / FATHER OF THE PRIESTLY TRIBE / SCATTERED IN ISRAEL |
| Status | DECEASED / HIS TRIBE SET APART FOR THE LORD / LIVED 137 YEARS |
| Birth | c. 1928 BC (THIRD SON OF JACOB) | Marks & Identifiers | THE FATHER OF PRIESTS AND LEVITES |
| Place of Birth | PADDAN-ARAM | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | LEVI (FOUNDER) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | SON OF JACOB AND LEAH | People | ISRAEL (THE TWELVE TRIBES) |
| Occupation | HERDSMAN / TRIBAL FATHER | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL | Calling | FOREFATHER OF THE PRIESTHOOD |
| Primary Mission | STAND AMONG THE SONS OF JACOB | Known Signs | THE VENGEANCE AT SHECHEM / THE TRIBE SET APART |
| Covenant Role | ANCESTOR OF AARON, MOSES, AND THE LEVITES | Divine Access | INDIRECT / HIS TRIBE LATER CHOSEN FOR THE SANCTUARY |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Patriarchal Classification | THE PRIESTLY FOREFATHER |
| Covenant Status | SCATTERED, THEN CONSECRATED | Known Miracles | NONE RECORDED |
| Divine Commission | REDIRECTED | Threat Assessment | HIS FIERCE ANGER AT SHECHEM |
| Mission Status | SCATTERED / YET SET APART FOR GOD | Archive Category | PATRIARCHS / THE PRIESTLY LINE |
Jacob's word on his fierce anger: CURSED BE THEIR ANGER, FOR IT WAS FIERCE
What the scattering later became: LEVITES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT ISRAEL TO SERVE
The subject was the third son of Jacob by Leah, born in Paddan-aram. His mother named him Levi, hoping her husband would now be joined to her.
When their sister Dinah was defiled at Shechem, the subject and his brother Simeon deceived the men of the city, and while they were in pain from circumcision fell upon them and killed every male with the sword.
Jacob rebuked them for bringing trouble on his house, and on his deathbed he cursed their fierce anger and cruelty, declaring that he would divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Yet what began as a curse of scattering became a place of service. At Sinai the sons of the subject rallied to Moses against the golden calf, and the LORD set the tribe apart to bear the sanctuary and to teach His law.
From the subject came Kohath, Amram, and then Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. His tribe received no land of its own, for the LORD was their inheritance, and they stood before Him in the priesthood forever.
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- Unchecked anger, even in a just cause, can curse those who wield it.
- God can turn a scattering meant as judgment into a calling to serve.
- Those who have God as their inheritance need no other portion.
