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  • Every priest and levite who served in the temple would have been in violation.

    Surviving in an Angry World Charles F. Stanley 2010

  • I also saw that there are linguistic objections to the Koestler theory, as well as the cohanite/levite descent one, and Koestler's pet theory has of course since been disproved by genetic profiling.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Jewish Genetics, Part 2: Cohens and Levites kohen, cohen, levite DNAIn a similar way, there is no Jewish haplotype and genetics cannot ‘prove’ whether someone is a Jew; that is a matter for religious authorities.

    Turn off the lights, for now everything just seems so right | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • This spoken from the perspective of another? curly levite beard-wearer.

    Wet Shaving: Sinfully Joyful David Cowan 2008

  • His lank, sleek gray hair, cut in somewhat ecclesiastical fashion; the black trousers, black stockings, black waistcoat, and long puce-colored greatcoat (styled a levite in the south), all completed his resemblance to a Jesuit.

    Eve and David 2007

  • His lank, sleek gray hair, cut in somewhat ecclesiastical fashion; the black trousers, black stockings, black waistcoat, and long puce-colored greatcoat (styled a levite in the south), all completed his resemblance to a Jesuit.

    Eve and David 2007

  • Not my Jesus, whose idea of a good neighbor was not a levite or a priest, but a gentile who cared for a suffering victim.

    Does your pastor lie to you? 2005

  • Kneeling thus on the flagstone to kindle the fire and busied with the disposition of his wisps of paper and candle-butts he seemed more than ever a humble server making ready the place of sacrifice in an empty temple, a levite of the Lord.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • God wot how the levite belaboured him, hiding within the long sleeve of his canonical shirt his huge steel gauntlet lined with ermine; for he was a strong-built ball, and an old dog at fisticuffs.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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