The Chariots of God Descend on Sinai Like the Levite Camp

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 286:1

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"I am the LORD your God" (Exodus 20:2). This is what the verse says: "The chariots of God are myriads upon myriads, thousands of angels" (Psalms 68:18). Rabbi Abdimi of Haifa said: I have learned in my teaching that the Holy One, blessed be He, came down upon Sinai with twenty-two thousand companies of ministering angels. Rabbi Berekhiah the Priest, son of Rabbi, said: like the camp of Levi. For the Holy One, blessed be He, foresaw that they would one day stand with their blemishes; therefore there descended twenty-two thousand, like the camp of Levi.

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