Levite

During Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, three clans from the priestly tribe of Levi - the Kohanthites, Gershonites, and Merarites - were assigned the job of transporting the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).

Avi also examined the boundaries according to the prophecy of Ezekiel that sets several constrictions on the Land of Israel, such as equal areas and shorelines to each tribe, and the position and inheritance of the tribe of Levi. Using his size of the cubit, with brilliant insight he drew a map of the Land of Israel that agrees with all the requirements.

In plain language, priests are also called Levites, referring to the tribe of Levi that priests originate from; however, not all of the Levites were priests (Hubbard 1995: 1056-1063).

This was an act of defiance against the tribe of Levi who held the priestly office ever since the time of Moses and whose privileges and prerogatives had been set forth in the Torah.

His brother Aaron was the father of the priesthood perpetually descending from their family tribe of Levi, responsible for ritual sacrifices only.

They claim direct descent from Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, who entered the Promised Land with Joshua and settled in the Samaria region; while their priests stem from the tribe of Levi. The Samaritans rather resent the name by which they are known; preferring to call themselves "Shamerim"--in Hebrew, guardians--for they contend that they have guarded the original Law of Moses, keeping it pure and unadulterated down the centuries.

The name Levita is the Latin form of Levite, meaning a Jew descended from the tribe of Levi, the son of Jacob, and one of the original 12 tribes of Israel.

All Kohanim are members of the Tribe of Levi by direct patrilineal descent, although not all members of that tribe are Kohanim.

The Cohanim (plural of "Cohen") are the priestly family of the Jewish people, members of the Tribe of Levi, and all are believed to be descendants of one man, Aaron, the brother of Moses, according to University of Arizona biotechnology research scientist Michael Hammer, who is also Family Tree DNA's chief scientist.

Topics covered include the DNA confirmation of the middle east origin of world Jewry, tracing Biblical matriarchs, what genetics has to say about the lost tribes of Israel, the connections between science and the Torah tradition, a summary of Kohanim and the Tribe of Levi, and much more.

The Book of Chronicles describes in great detail in 28 verses (15:1-28) how David gathers together the tribe of Levi, particularly the families of Kohath, who had been assigned by Moses in the wilderness the task of carrying the Ark upon their shoulders "with the staves thereon," and "speaks to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy."(15)

For we find that Christ, manifestly priest of the father, was [also] from the tribe of Levi' (On the Benedictions of Isaac, Jacob and Moses 72.8-9).