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Tribe of Levi From CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation
science Position of the tribe In the first year following the
Exodus of Israel, Moses ascended Mount Sinai to receive the
Sinaitic Covenant (the Ten Commandments and other elements of
the Mosaic law). When he descended from the mountain, he found
that the Israelites had rebelled and adopted idolatry.
Specifically, they had made a golden calf and were praying to
it. Moses, in anger, broke the original tablets on which God had
inscribed the Commandments. He then melted down the golden calf,
scattered its dust into a nearby pond and forced the people to
drink it. In this episode, only one tribe stood by Moses. That
tribe was his own tribe, the Levites. As a result, God commanded
that the Jewish priesthood (the Aaronic priesthood) be reserved
for the Levites. As part of this command, God relieved the other
tribal leaders of certain sacerdotal responsibilities and
entrusted these solely to