11-15).
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Levi of course receives the fullest treatment (1Chronicles v. 27
[vi. 1]-vi. 66 [81], ix. 10 seq., xv., xvi., xxiii.-xxvii.,
&c.). We know that this clerical tribe is an artificial
production, and that its hierarchical subdivision, as worked out in
the Priestly Code, was the result of the centralisation of the
cultus in Jerusalem. Further, it has been already shown that in
the history as recorded in Chronicles the effort is most
conspicuous to represent the sons of Aaron and the Levites, in all
cases where they are absent from the older historical books of
the canon, as playing the part to which they are entitled according
to the Priestly Code. How immediate is the connection with the
last-named document, how in a certain sense that code is even
carried further by Chronicles, can be seen for example from this
circumstance, that in the former Moses in a novel reduces the
period of beginning public service in the case of a Levite from
thirty years of age to twenty-five (Numbers iv. 3 seq., viii. 23
seq.), while in the latter David (1Chronicles xxiii.
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