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  • noun Plural form of Levite.

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Examples

  • Others go before them playing upon harps, which they call Levites, whether so named from Lusius or

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Others go before them playing upon harps, which they call Levites, whether so named from Lusius or

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • "Ahijah, whose name occurs after" the Levites, is not mentioned in the previous lists.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • You know, among the original Twelve Tribes the Levites were the scholars.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • You know, among the original Twelve Tribes the Levites were the scholars.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

    Leviticus 25. 1999

  • Levites: and there is something lawful in the Levites, that is unlawful in the priests.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Egyptians, and changed it only in so far as their religion made it necessary, for with them as with others the healing art was a part of the religion, and the Levites were the sole practitioners.

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

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