And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The list of Levi's sons belongs to the history of the seven years of famine, when the dearth reached Canaan where Jacob dwelt. In that dearth ten of Jacob's sons went down to Egypt to buy grain. Coming before Joseph as ruler, they bowed with their faces to the earth before him.
Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him, because his name had been changed and he had grown from a youth sold to the Ishmaelites into the prime minister. At their obeisance his dreams of his brothers bowing to him came to mind. Seeing that Benjamin was not among them, he tested them by calling them spies in order to learn their spirit and their home. They answered that they were twelve brethren, sons of one man in Canaan, with the youngest still with their father and one no more.
The list of Levi's sons belongs to the history of the seven years of famine, when the dearth reached Canaan where Jacob dwelt. In that dearth ten of Jacob's sons went down to Egypt to buy grain. Coming before Joseph as ruler, they bowed with their faces to the earth before him.
Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him, because his name had been changed and he had grown from a youth sold to the Ishmaelites into the prime minister. At their obeisance his dreams of his brothers bowing to him came to mind. Seeing that Benjamin was not among them, he tested them by calling them spies in order to learn their spirit and their home. They answered that they were twelve brethren, sons of one man in Canaan, with the youngest still with their father and one no more.