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Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites.

Most scholars view the Torah as projecting the origins of the Levites into the past to explain their role as landless cultic functionaries.

Origins

The Torah suggests that the name Levi refers to Leah's hope for Jacob to ''join'' with her, implying a derivation from Hebrew yillaweh, meaning he will join,

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