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CHAPTER 32:
Levi’s Dream At Bethel;
He Is appointed To
The Priesthood. Jacob
Celebrates The Feast Of
Tabernacles And Offers
Tithes. The Institution Of
Tithes.
Cf. Test.
Levi 8 (which
describes
Levi’s
dream-vision
of seven men
in white as
having taken
place at
Bethel); also
5 of the same
work (in 9:3
Jacob has
this dream (32:1-15; cf. Gen. 35)
also).
1 And he abode that night at
Bethel, and Levi dreamed that
they had ordained and made
him the priest of the Most
High Elohim, him and his sons
for ever; and he awoke from
his sleep and blessed Yahuah.
2 And Jacob rose early in the
morning, on the fourteenth
of this month, and he gave
a tithe of all that came with
him, both of men and cattle,
both of gold and every vessel
and garment, yea, he gave
Levi, as the tithes of all. 3 And in those
tenth son
(counting days Rachel became pregnant
backwards
from with her son Benjamin. And
Benjamin), Jacob counted his sons from
fell, under the
law of tithe, him upwards and Levi fell to
to the Lord,
and was the portion of Yahuah, and
consecrated
to the his father clothed him in the
priesthood.
cf. Lv. 27:32 garments of the priesthood
A technical and filled his hands. 4 And on
expression
meaning the fifteenth of this month, he
appointment
to the brought to the altar fourteen
priesthood;
cf. Ex. 28:41 oxen from amongst the cattle,
(R.V. marg.); and twenty-eight rams, and
29:9.
forty-nine sheep, and seven
lambs, and twenty-one kids of
Hasmonean
Priest Kings
were not
Levites
nor even
Israelites but
Samaritans.
They usurped
this title from
the Levites
whom they
ousted from
the High
Priesthood.
There is
no Biblical
justification
for such.
D R E A M
the goats as a burnt-offering The number
victims
on the altar of sacrifice, well ofdoes
not
pleasing for a sweet savour agree
with the
before Yahuah. 5 This was his prescriptions
of the
offering, in consequence of Mosaic Law
regarding
the vow which he had vowed the Feast of
Tabernacles;
that he would give a tenth, cf. Nm.
29:12-40; Lv.
with their fruit-offerings and 23:34-36,
their drink-offerings. 6 And 39-44.
when the fire had consumed Cf. Gn. 28:22
it, he burnt incense on the
fire over the fire, and for a
thank-offering two oxen and
four rams and four sheep, four
he-goats, and two sheep of a
year old, and two kids of the
goats; and thus he did daily
for seven days. 7 And he and
all his sons and his men were
eating (this) with joy there
during seven days and blessing
and thanking Yahuah, who
had delivered him out of all
his tribulation and had given
Test. Levi
him his vow. 8 And he tithed Cf.
9:3 (“And he
all the clean animals, and [Jacob] paid
tithes of all
made a burnt sacrifice, but the to the Lord
through me”).
unclean animals he gave (not)
to Levi his son, and he gave
him all the souls of the men.
9 And Levi discharged the
priestly office at Bethel before
Jacob his father in preference
to his ten brothers, and he
e. the
was a priest there, and Jacob i.second
gave his vow: thus he tithed tithe; cf. Nm.
18:26.
again the tithe to Yahuah and
sanctified it, and it became
holy unto Him.
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