10/26/23: Part 2) Resting. Autism. Market crash. Stone those who tried to steal you away. Justice.

“Justice”

I didn’t know what a Levite was and did a little study to understand who they were.

This is what I found:
“Levite, member of a group of clans of religious functionaries in ancient Israel who apparently were given a special religious status, conjecturally for slaughtering idolaters of the golden calf during the time of Moses (Ex. 32:25–29).

Why are the Levites special?
The Levites were one of the most important tribes of Israel because they were the tribe responsible for the religious leadership of the Jews. Jacob, who took on the responsibility of the priesthood because of the importance of Moses and Aaron to the Israelites, was the sort of patriarch to the Levites.

The Torah describes the Levites as a landless Israelite tribe who inherited their position by responding to Moses' call to take vengeance.”

Why did the Levites get no land?
Because they are to serve (guard) the tent of meeting (Numbers 18:21–24), because they are to carry the ark (Deuteronomy 10:8–9), because Yahweh is their inheritance (Joshua 13:32–33), or because their priesthood is their inheritance (Joshua 18:7), they are not to receive an allotment of land among the other tribes.”

Due 17
Law Courts
If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge —whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults —take them to the place the LORD your God will choose. Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.