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NASB	Exodus 32:29 Then Moses said, "Dedicate yourselves today to the LORD--for every man has been against his son and against his brother--in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today."
AMPLIFIED 2015	Exodus 32:29 Then Moses said [to the Levites], "Dedicate yourselves today to the LORD--for each man has been against his own son and his own brother [in his attempt to escape execution]--so that He may restore and bestow His blessing on you this day."

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Bible Question: Is the reason god chose the Levites to be the high priest because they were the only tribe not to worship the golden calf or is it because of Jacobs prophesy in Genesis 49:5. I know Aaron built the calf but that doesnt mean he worshiped it, just like jesus turned water to wine but in John ch 2, it never says he drank any of it.

Bible Answer: son of god

Aaron himself was a Levite -

Exodus 4:14 The the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite?" Moses and Aaron were both Levites, they were brothers.

Aaron, in fact not only made the golden calf with his own hands, but ordered a feast be made for the next day, and may have offered peace offerings to it as Israels' priest. But when Moses came back down the mountain he lied to Moses and told Moses that the people entreated Aaoron to make them a golden calf and that Aaron merely told them to give him their gold, but that the golden calf jumped out of the fire by itself fully made for the people to worshiip. Then Moses says, whoever is for the Lord, come to me! And the Levites came, so it seems that unlike Aaron the Levite the rest of the Levites may have had nothing to do with the whole affair.

In Exodus you have the Levites being appointed by God to work in the tabernacle and take it down and set it up in Exodus 1:49-51.

Then there is in Exodus 2:5, 6 the Lord telling Moses to bring the Levites near and to set them before Aaron the priest to serve him, and to perform the duties for him and the whole congregation to do the service of the tabernacle. This is the second time that that service of any Levites is mentioned by the Lord as priests other than Aaron. The first time after just Aaron is in Exodus 29:9, 10, the Lord tells Moses to gird Aaron and his sons and bind caps on them and they shall have the priesthood.

God foreordains everything, and everything is in His plan, He chose the Levites before they were born in that sense. It seems like at first the Levites choosen, being Moses and Aaron is because of Moses heart is toward the salvation of Israel from Egypt and Aaron is chosen as Moses mouth piece.

Later it seems as if, as you say, the Levites as a group appear to be for the Lord, and apparently, although we can't be sure, did not worship the gloden calf, even though Aaron played a part there.

I would be hard put to make a parellel between a holy Jesus who drank no wine and Aaron who made a golden calf, ordered a feast for worshipping it, and then may have done the offerings for it as Israel's priest.

Since men are all sinners it would seem more likely that the Lord chose some to be holy and be His priests, rather than that they did not sin. Genesis 49:5-7, states that the Levi and Simeon were bloody and that their soul would not enter Israel's council, not their glory be in the assembly, and cursed be their anger, and scatter them in Israel. It seems very unlikely that this is any prophecy about the whole tribe of Levi, it seems more about Levi himself and says nothing about being priests. The only thing that could be said that relates to the whole tribe of Israel would be that the sons of Levi would have no inheritance in Israel because of Levi's sin. Over and over we have that the Lord gives the sons of Levi no inheritance because they are priests and their inheritance has to come from the gifts to them as their inheritance. They were appointed cities and land surrouding cities to graze their flocks and were appointed rulers over cities of refuge with land around those.

blessinsg abound, bowler

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