What are Leuites?
* 1.1They were inferiour Priests, comming from, and called so of
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* 1.1They were inferiour Priests, comming from, and called so of
Leui Iacobs sonne by Leah: of whom some serued vnder the Priests in the Tabernacle, and after in the Temple: and they be∣ing purified by a holy water and sacrifice before the Churchb 1.2, did carie the Tabernacle, which was portable, and other things of vse, and did minister to the high Priests as they sacrificed, ser∣uing them in the whole administation of sacrifices, but they had not authoritie to sacrificeb 1.3, and they themselues did pay tythes of their tythes to the Priestsc 1.4, for this cause the Deacons of the New Testament, properly so called, are (by the ancient) com∣pared with them. But of these afterward Dauid appointed ho∣ly Singers, Treasurers for holy things, Ouerseers, and Porters, and these from twentie yeares til 50 killed the sacrificesd 1.5, but o∣thers being dispersed through diuers countries partly did seruice in the Synagogues, and partly did sit in iudgement with the el∣ders in the gatee 1.6.
Num. 8, 7,
Num. 18 6.3.6
Num. 18 6.3.6
Num. 16.26.
1. Chro. 23 35.
EZec. 44.15