... I have preferred you above all flesh ... The seven departed from me and I woke up from my sleep. Then I said, ‘This is a vision and I am so amazed that I should have any vision.’ And I concealed this also in my heart and disclosed it to no man. And we went to my father, Isaac, and he too blessed me thus. Then Jacob, my father, tithed all that he had in conformity with his vow and I was the first at the head of the priesthood and to me, one of his sons, he gave a gift ... to God, and he clothed me with the garment of the priesthood and he ordained me, and I became a priest of the everlasting God...[1]
4Q213b
Aramaic Levi c
Dead Sea Scrolls · 160 B.C.E. - 60 B.C.E.
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