The Lord portraying the 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. 11 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. DEUT. XVIII:3-5-B. C. 1451 * 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be Bishop W. H. Hart was of the ox or sheep; and they shall give Tribe of Levi. -From Webber. DEUT. XXXIII:8-11-B. C. 1451 * 8¶ 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; unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. 4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen GENESIS XLIX:5-7-B. C. 1689 him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own* 5 Simeon and Levi are brethchildren: for they have observed ren; instruments of cruelty are in thy word, and kept thy covenant. their habitations, *Deut. 33:8-11; 18:3-5 and Gen. 49:5-7-These texts are set in reversal and is the standard for the analysis of each of the "Twelve Tribes" of Jacob. Levi is lost, divided and scattered in The House of Israel and also in "The House of Judah." Teach and Minister, The dominant HEART-CHARACTER of the Personality of Levi in action. 60 my soul, come not thou into into Egypt; every man and his their secret; unto their assembly, household came with Jacob. mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. EXOD. 1:1-22-B. C. 1706 'I Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. Deut. 13:4-Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. Deut. 9:13-17-13 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and i ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17. And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. 16 And he said, When ye do the 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased office of a midwife to the Hebrew abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto 10 Come on, let us deal wisely them, Why have ye done this with them; lest they multiply, and thing, and have saved the men it came to pass, that, when there children alive? falleth out any war, they join also 19 And the midwives said unto unto our enemies, and fight Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew against us, and so get them up out women are not as the Egyptian of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied 21 And it came to pass, because and grew. And they were grieved the midwives feared God, that he because of the children of Israel. made them houses. 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. EXOD. II:1-25-B. C. 1571 3 And when she could not longer he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself 13 And when he went out the at the river; and her maidens second day, behold, two men of walked along by the river's side: the Hebrews strove together: and and when she saw the ark among he said to him that did the wrong, the flags, she sent her maid to Wherefore smitest thou thy felfetch it. low? 6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrew's children. 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 7.Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and 15 Now when Pharaoh heard call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew this thing, he sought to slay women, that she may nurse the Moses. But Moses fled from the child for thee? face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delievered us out of the hand of |