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Levi
Levi/Levy (, (ヘブライ語:לֵּוִי); Standard ''Levy'' Tiberian ''(unicode:Lēwî)''; literally ''joining'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the ''Levites''). Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites, and in the documentary hypothesis, the early sources of the Torah—the Jahwist and Elohist—appear to treat the term ''Levi'' as just being a word meaning ''priest''; some scholars therefore suspect that "levi" was originally a general term for a priest, and had no connection to ancestry, and that it was only later, for example in the priestly source and Blessing of Moses, that the existence of a tribe named ''Levi'' became assumed, in order to explain the origin of the priestly caste.〔("Levi, Tribe of, ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' )〕
==Origins==
The Torah suggests that the name of ''Levi'' refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to ''join'' with her, implying a derivation from ''yillaweh'', meaning ''he will join'', but some Biblical scholars have proposed quite different origins of the name. These scholars suspect that it may simply mean ''priest'', either as a loan word from the Minaean ''lawi'u'', meaning ''priest'', or by referring to those people who were ''joined'' to the ark of the covenant. Another possibility is that the Levites originated as migrants, and that the name Levites indicates their ''joining'' with either the Israelites in general, or the earlier Israelite priesthood in particular.〔
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