25 However, it came about that on the third day, when they got to be aching,+ the two sons of Jacob, Simʹe·on and Leʹvi,+ brothers of Diʹnah,+ proceeded to take each one his sword and to go unsuspectedly* to the city and to kill every male.+
16 And these are the names of the sons of Leʹvi,+ according to their family descents:+ Gerʹshon and Koʹhath and Me·rarʹi.+ And the years of Leʹvi’s life were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
12 “As for me, look! I do take the Levites from among the sons of Israel in place of all the firstborn+ opening the womb of the sons of Israel; and the Levites must become mine.