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Where did Leviticus and the Levites get their names?

Answered by . March 28, 2013 - 10:59 am

The Levites The Levites got their name from their ancestor: the Levites were the people who descended from Levi, one of Jacob’s twelve sons (Ex. 6:16ff.).1 The Book of Leviticus “Leviticus” is the English name for the third book of the Bible (its title in the Hebrew Bible is taken from the first word of […]