To render Scriptural terms more intelligible Levi frequently used parallels from cognate languages, especially Arabic. To elucidate his subject he would cite popular proverbs and compose fables and parables. Thus, commenting on Psalms 7:15 (A. V. 14), "He... has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood," he says: "The Holy One having ordered Noah to admit into the ark pairs of every species of living beings. Falsehood applied, but Noah refused to admit him unless he brought with him his mate. Falsehood then departed to search for a mate. Meeting Avarice, he inquired, 'From where do you come?' Upon being told that he too had been refused admission into the ark because he had no mate, Falsehood proposed that they present themselves as mates. But Avarice would not agree to this without assurance of material gain; whereupon Falsehood promised him all his earnings, and Avarice repeated the condition agreed upon. After leaving the ark Avarice appropriated all of Falsehood's acquisitions, and when the latter demanded some share of his own, Avarice replied, 'Have we not agreed that all thy earnings shall be mine?' This is the lesson: Falsehood begets falsehood". Levi became known among his contemporaries as the "master of traditional exegesis" (מרא דשמעתא).