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To avoid quarrels among the first-born, as otherwise each one would try to lay the payment of redemption money upon his neighbor, Moses wrote upon twenty-two thousand slips of paper the word "Levi," and upon two hundred seventy-three the words "five shekels," all of which were then thrown into an urn and mixed. Then every first-born had to draw one of the slips.
'Your sins are forgiven! What a blasphemous thing for a man to dare to say!" "Rabbi, it is a serious mistake for us to mix with outcasts!" Simon was disturbed. Jesus had summoned a tax collector named Levi to follow him. On this night the tax collector had asked Jesus and his disciples to come to his home for dinner.
Moved by a common instinct, all eyes were turned upon Levi Gorringe, and he, without the slightest hesitation, stood up and said he would give $100.
Besides the cabbages and turnips, which were so welcome forward, the Levi Starbuck contributed not a little to the comfort of the after-part of the vessel by her contribution of newspapers, which passed eagerly from hand to hand, through wardroom and steerage, affording a pleasant change from the worn-out topics of discussion that had now grown threadbare through the wear-and-tear of many a dull day and stormy night.
Another very instructive passage shows that Samuel was not only considered to be diviner, seer, and prophet in one, but that he was also, to all intents and purposes, priest of Jahveh though, according to his biographer, he was not a member of the tribe of Levi. The use of the word "bless" here as if Samuel were not going to sacrifice, but only to offer a blessing or thanksgiving is curious.
You're the thief Levi West you come here and stole my daddy from me ye did. You make me ruin myself to pay what oughter to been mine then ye ye steal the gal I was courtin', to boot." He stopped and his lips rithed for words to say. "I know ye," said he, grinding his teeth. "I know ye! And only for what my daddy made me promise I'd a-had you up to the magistrate's before this."
"Still you have heard how they spoke against the gods of the State." "I am a Syrian, and only know one true God. Your gods are not mine." "You are a Hebrew, then! What is your name?" "I am an Israelite, of the family of Levi, and call myself now Cartophilus." "A Phoenician, then?" "No, a Hebrew.
These people are, for the most part, down-and-out journalists or broken spendthrifts seeking to exploit the taste of a public weary of positivism. They plagiarize Eliphas Levi, steal from Fabre d'Olivet, and write treatises of which they themselves are incapable of making head or tail. It's a real pity, when you come to think of it."
"Ye are great with the revolver, captain," said she, coaxingly, "ye'll be afther giving me the laste pinch of the rale stuff for it?" Robinson took the lump. "Good heavens! what a weight!" cried he. He eyed it keenly. "Come, Mr. Levi," cried he, "here is a find; be generous. She is unlucky." "I shall be just," said the old man gravely.
God hath persuaded Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem; and so we are now the Judah and Jerusalem, and our ministers the sons of Levi. God’s own church and people, even the best of them, have need of this refiner’s fire and of this fuller’s soap. And so much for the scope, sense, and coherence of the text. The general doctrine which offereth itself to us from the words, is this:—
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