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Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah and the third son of twelve brothers overall as recorded in the book of Genesis in the Bible. He was the founder of the Levite tribe one of the Twelve tribes of Israel. After the rape of their sister Dinah by the prince of the city of Shechem, Levi and his brother Simeon tricked the people of Shechem into circumcizing themselves and then when they were recovering slaughtered all the people of Shechem. Jacob remembered this when giving his blessing to his sons and admonished Levi for his killing in anger and stated his descendents would be scattered in the land of Israel. (Genesis 49:5-7).