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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostknight" data-source="post: 1604097" data-attributes="member: 15338">On the above - All Kohen's are descendants of Aaron - if one of his sons born before leaving Egypt- then they needed to do something extraordinary to become a Kohen, if born after leaving Egypt they automatically became Kohenim as did the descendants of all his sons, regardless of status.  (An example of a deed which got one son his staus was the stabbing through of the prince of Simeon when consorting with a Midianite women by Pinchas).  The rest of the tribe of Levi became the bearers of the ark, choir, any other tasks that was required for maintianing the ark and accroutements but not directly the responsibility of the Kohenim.  The rest of Israel were the menial labour involved (the eldest son being sent to work for the levites unless they were "redeemed" by their father, usually done a month after birth with two silver shekalim- and yep, we still do this today in rememberance of our duty, usually with a set of coins we have specially made, give to a Kohen, and he customarily gives the coins back as a gift for the baby).As for sacrificing - yep, until the uilding of the temple a Kohe would use any nearby one or construct oine himself (In the times of the prophets before the building of the temple there were some semi-permanent alters such as the one Samuel's mother prays at and is blessed by Eli at).As a bit of a background note for your character history if you go with a Levite - the Mishnah (Oral law) notes that while the rest of the Children of Israel went to work (initially it was billed as a voluntary public works program, then it got changed into slavery), the Levites did not, as they stayed to study Hashem's laws and to increase their knowledge about Hashem (at that stage a few laws from Abraham and the Seven Noahide laws), and never actually worked as slaves - though the dercrees against the Jews applied to them as well.  So a Levite character would not have a history of being a slave personally, but would have one of being part of an enslaved nation.</blockquote>

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