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When Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan, the Levites were the only Israelite tribe who received cities but no tribal land "because the Lord the God of Israel himself is ...
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Levites (lē`vīts), a religious caste among the ancient Hebrews, descended from Jacob's son Levi and figuring prominently in the Bible. There were three divisions of Levites ...

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Levites, in the Old Testament, members of the tribe or family of Levi, son of Jacob, who acted as priests in the ancient kingdom of Judah. Until the collapse of Judah in 586 bc the terms priest and Levite were interchangeable. The Levites later assumed a secondary ceremonial role as the priesthood became the prerogative of the descendants of Aaron, who was himself a descendant of Levi.

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