5 So all the souls, that came out of the loins of Jacob, were seventy souls; Joseph was in Egypt already. TESTAMENT OF LEVI. More or less contemporary with the oldest parts of 1 Enoch, both these works �vx��`9�uz��Jכ����g��=dQ3%r��a�L�C٫�g�92��e�d�DY�,�]1e}>��^��y���+�m��eP�nI5\�� Pdf_module_version 0.0.8 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210309183223 Republisher_operator associate-loriejean-ebua@archive.org Republisher_time 296 Scandate 20210303044534 Scanner station34.cebu.archive.org Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog claremont Scribe3_search_id 10011374946 Tts_version 4.3-initial-122-gdb048873 ANF08. the third son of Jacob and Leah. N˲,���wJ�O��{� Sin was erecting walls and injustice was ensconced in towers.”2:4 “I kept grieving over the race of the sons of men, and I prayed to the Lord that I might be delivered.”2:5 “Then sleep fell upon me, and I beheld a high mountain, and I was on it.”2:6 “And behold, the heavens were opened, and an angel of the Lord spoke to me: ‘Levi, Levi, enter!”2:7 “And I entered the first heaven, and saw there much water suspended.”2:8 “And again I saw a second heaven much brighter and more lustrous, for there was a measureless height in it.”2:9 “And I said to the angel, ‘Why are these things thus?’ And the angel said to me, ‘Do not be amazed concerning this, for you shall see another heaven more lustrous and beyond compare.”2:10 “And when you have mounted there, you shall stand near the Lord. The copy of the Testament of Reuben, what things he charged his sons before he died in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life. And he did not want to go with us to Bethel.”9:3 “When we came to Bethel my father, Jacob, saw a vision concerning me that I should be in the priesthood.”9:4 “And thus we came to Hebron to settle there.”9:5 “He arose early and paid tithes for all to the Lord, through me.”9:6 “And Isaac kept calling me continually to bring to my remembrance the Law of the Lord, just as the angel had shown me.”9:7 “And he taught me the law of the priesthood: sacrifices, holocausts, voluntary offerings of the first fruits, offerings for safe return.”9:8 “Day by day he was informing me, occupying himself with me. �8N��jy[_��/�]����t��>}W�4��k�uV�t�(��p��$:�O�o, @���%Q� M ���L:6��O1xT! ]Vp-���@km8 �D/# ���R���bw�v�,��qO@T���Yt. work, the Testament of Levi section of the Testaments of the Twelve Patri-archs.2 In particular, I would like to focus on the remarks found within the Testament of Levi that refer to the biblical story of the rape of Jacob's daughter Dinah by Shechem and the subsequent revenge carried out on the Shechemites by Jacob's sons (Genesis 34). You persecute just men: and you hate the pious; the word of the faithful you regard with revulsion.”16:3 “A man who by the power of the Most High renews the Law, you name ‘Deceiver,’ and finally you shall plot to kill him, not discerning his eminence; by your wickedness you take innocent blood on your heads.”16:4 “I tell you, on account of him your holy places shall be razed to the ground.”16:5 “You shall have no place that is clean, but you will be as a curse and a dispersion among the nations until he will again have regard for you, and will take you back in compassion.”, 17:1 “Because you have heard about the seventy weeks, listen also concerning the priesthood.”17:2 “In each jubilee there shall be a priesthood: In the first jubilee the first person to be anointed to the priesthood will be great, and he shall speak to God as father; and his priesthood shall be fully satisfactory to the Lord, and in the days of his joy, he shall rise up for the salvation of the world.”17:3 “In the second jubilee the Anointed One shall be conceived in sorrow of the beloved one, and his priesthood shall be praised and shall be glorified by all.”17:4 “The third priest shall be overtaken by grief, and,”17:5 “The fourth priesthood shall be with sufferings, because injustice shall be imposed upon him in a high degree, and all Israel shall hate each one his neighbor.”17:6 “The fifth shall be overcome by darkness;”17:7 “Likewise the sixth and the seventh.”17:8 “In the seventh there shall be pollution such as I am unable to declare in the presence of human beings, because only the ones who do these things understand such matters.”17:9 “Therefore they shall be in captivity and will be preyed upon; both their land and their possessions shall be stolen.”17:10 “And in the fifth week they shall return to the land of their desolation, and shall restore anew the house of the Lord.”17:11 “In the seventh week there will come priests; idolaters, adulterers, money lovers, arrogant, lawless, voluptuaries, pederasts, those who practice bestiality.”, 18:1 “When vengeance will have come upon them from the Lord, the priesthood will lapse.”18:2 “And then the Lord will raise up a new priest to whom all the words of the Lord will be revealed. �P�H������A��'U4�9��{ v������۳_�Yt���ܰY����2��'�����\F�-Vϟ�,���IR�"cYY�1[���ח9��=��+�����>�^��] fU��_̓ٛ�!�Ŭ��sx�]��>(g8��t��ˡ�^��k�j��S��W It was then that, together with Simeon, I performed vengeance against Hamor because of our sister, Dinah.”2:3 “As I was tending the flocks in Abel-Maoul a spirit of understanding from the Lord came upon me, and I observed all human beings making their way in life deceitfully. 2 0 obj : Harvard University Press, 1973), 195–215. And the spirit of understanding and sanctification shall rest upon him [in the water].”18:8 “For he shall give the majesty of the Lord to those who are his sons in truth forever. The A.D. to reflect this is the Testament of Levi, a pseudepigraphic work known in Hebrew from the Cairo Geniza remains, and in a Greek form in the Jewish/Christian Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. �6 <> �f�{�c����϶0h�:�U�� �f5 ��y$�M/6p��;��{Z� Thus the name of the mountain is Aspis, which is near Gebal to the right of Abima.”6:2 “And I guarded these words in my heart.”6:3 “Then I advised my father and Reuben that they tell the sons of Hamor that they should not be circumcised, because I was filled with zeal on account of the abominable thing they had done to my sister.”6:4 “And I destroyed Shechem first, and Simeon destroyed Hamor.”6:5 “Then my brothers came and destroyed that city by the sword.”6:6 “When my father heard of this he was angry and sorrowful, because they had received circumcision and died, and so he passed us by in his blessings.”6:7 “Thus we sinned in doing this contrary to his opinion, and he became sick that very day.”6:8 “But I saw that God’s sentence was ‘Guilty,’ because they had wanted to do the same thing to Sarah and Rebecca that they did to Dinah, our sister. 4#f_�^���]�{w�>�UM���^�R6$+1�_u�%�B�}����K�pߑn d2l���� ���r\s�$*GT87��"�� 4T(Ԣ��5�Y���fM�J�D�y�7�-[`јjG� �1#�� �ا�Ff4Ti�'I�02V�����@��!� ;��$�ФC���i37~bܰ3[�^Wt��뇆���ܾC��h��O�T�ɏ'@r��5Z6Z��rSd$�,�|��DQ��?�F�G|*v���h�[͉|ւU�5�}�f�܄dQ�WzȦ�� �J�^ |]_U] (��S����LBѦiHRu^�9��e���y!��Z'2��("+��眨j;ϛ;�k�}67��+ ¤�}�8�U� �&���p�角��jb���K�)����h0*�M��Yf�?V���H stream She says, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I … It is one of the longest of the Testaments, and is predominantly concerned with arrogance. The Third Son of Jacob and Leah.. CHAP. 35 And they laid him in a coffin, and afterwards they buried him in Hebron, with I Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You take gentile/hethan women for your wives and your sexual relations will become like Sodom and Gomorrah.”14:7 “You will be inflated with pride over your priesthood, exalting yourselves not merely by human standards but contrary to the commands of God.”14:8 “With contempt and laughter you will deride the sacred things.”, 15:1 “Therefore the sanctuary which the Lord chose shall become desolate through your uncleanness, and you will be captives in all the nations.”15:2 “And you shall be to them a revolting thing, and you shall receive scorn and eternal humiliation through the just judgment of God.”15:3 “All who hate you will rejoice at your destruction.”15:4 “And unless you had received mercy through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers, not a single one of your descendants would be left on the earth.”, 16:1 “Now I have come to know that for seventy weeks you shall wander astray and profane the priesthood and defile the sacrificial altars.”16:2 “You shall set aside the Law and nullify the words of the prophets by your wicked perversity.
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