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LEVI.
Third son of Jacob and Leah. The tribe of Levi received no allotment of land in Canaan, because it was set apart to conduct the worship of God. Instead, the Levites received for their maintenance a portion of the tithes brought by the worshipers to the Temple. (See also Kohen.)