Part 2: (6-7 continued) For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:..And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; (Numbers 1:48-49, 3:15). Points 8, 9, & 10 - As per the Old Testament, the Levites were from a man named Levi who was one of Jacob's sons (and Jacob's name was changed by God to the name Israel - thus the Levities are a tribe of Israelites/Hebrews as they are from the man Jacob/Israel, whose sons became a nation as per Psalm 147:19-20). Here are the verses in order on the whole topic of the Levities being descended from the man Jacob/Israel:
8) Genesis 35:9-10: [9] And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. [10] And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
9) Levi was a son of Jacob/Israel: Exodus 1:1-2 [1] Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. [2] Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,...
10) The sons of Levi were part of the children of Israel that were to be brought out of Egypt: Exodus 6... [13] And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. [14] These be the heads of their fathers' houses: ... [16] And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years. [17] The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. [18] And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years. [19] And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations. (Exodus 6:13-14 & 6:16-19)
11) Jesus himself affirmed and supported the Hebrews’ Masoretic Text of the Old Testament because only the Hebrew Masoretic Text, not the Septuagint, has the book divisions of the law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms, which Jesus referred to when repeating the word “in” 3 times when saying “in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms,”:
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (Luke 24:44).
The Septuagint adds the Apocrypha and mixes them throughout itself, while having many serious errors and problems. https://t.me/AntiModernVersions/1544
12- Jesus mentions the jot and title which are only in the Hebrew alphabet and language, not in Egyptain or Greek. A jot is a small Hebrew, not Greek, letter; a title is a Hebrew character separating letters. Matthew 5:18 KJB For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luke 16:17 KJB And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.