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8 Benjamin is tall and well built. Blue eyes, light or brown hair. Narrow through the temples. Strong features. Many are left-handed.

THE DOMINANT HEART-CHARACTER

OF THE PERSONALITY OF

LEVI

IN ACTION

AND ALSO GIVING

THE RESULTS OF HIS ACTS

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

THE LORD

IN THE LAST DAYS

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DEUT. XVIII:3-5-B. C. 1451

* 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be

Bishop W. H. Hart was of the ox or sheep; and they shall give Tribe of Levi. -From Webber.

DEUT. XXXIII:8-11-B. C. 1451

* 8¶ And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for

ever.

9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen GENESIS XLIX:5-7-B. C. 1689 him; neither did he acknowledge

his brethren, nor knew his own* 5 Simeon and Levi are brethchildren: for they have observed ren; instruments of cruelty are in thy word, and kept thy covenant. their habitations,

*Deut. 33:8-11; 18:3-5 and Gen. 49:5-7-These texts are set in reversal and is the standard for the analysis of each of the "Twelve Tribes" of Jacob. Levi is lost, divided and scattered in The House of Israel and also in "The House of Judah."

Teach and Minister, The dominant HEART-CHARACTER of the Personality of Levi in action.

60 my soul, come not thou into into Egypt; every man and his their secret; unto their assembly, household came with Jacob.

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2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Deut. 13:4-Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

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Deut. 9:13-17 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

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15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

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17 And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.

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