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The Levites killed about 3,000 Israelites who worshipped the Golden Calf (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett). In Legends of the Jews , the Conservative rabbi and scholar Louis Ginzberg wrote that the worship of the golden calf was the disastrous consequence for Israel who took a mixed multitude in their exodus from Egypt.
During the Exodus the Levite tribe were particularly zealous in protecting the Mosaic law in the face of those worshipping the golden calf, which may have been a reason for their priestly status. [3] [4] Although the Levites were not counted in the census among the children of Israel, they were numbered separately as a special army. [5]
However, throughout the golden calf sequence, he is shown madly obsessed with Miriam, frequently touching or smelling her hair. Later in the film, he manages to seduce her and, much to his horror, she has Leprosy on her hands, causing him to withdraw from her and run away.
According to Deuteronomy 10:8, the selection of the Levites occurred in conjunction with the sin of the golden calf. [30] While some commentaries see the command for this selection as having predated the golden calf, [31] many sources see the selection as resulting from the golden calf, as follows.
Moses goes down the mountain bearing the two tablets, and becomes enraged and shatters the tablets. He burns the calf, grinds it to powder, strews it upon the water, and makes the Israelites drink it. All the Levites, at Moses’ instruction, kills 3,000 people. God punishes the remaining sinners by means of a plague.
[7] [8] The Levites as a tribe were later ordained for the priestly service after answering a call to take the L ORD 's side after the idolatry centered on the golden calf. [9] After the death of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar took their places as priests, because neither Nadab nor Abihu had any sons. [10] [11] [12] [13]
The Golden Calf (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, Aikev, or ʿEqeb (Hebrew: עֵקֶב —"if [you follow]," the second word, and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the 46th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Deuteronomy.
And the midrash taught that when the Israelites made the Golden Calf, the Levites did not participate, as Exodus 32:26 says: "Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp . . . and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him." When Moses told them in Exodus 32:27, "Put every man his sword on his thigh," they did so and respected no ...