Numbers 18:7
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7 But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain.(A) I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift.(B) Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.(C)”
Numbers 3:10
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10 Appoint Aaron(A) and his sons to serve as priests;(B) anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”(C)
Romans 15:15-16
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15 Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me(A) 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.(B) He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,(C) so that the Gentiles might become an offering(D) acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
John 3:27
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27 To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.
Numbers 18:20
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20 The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;(A) I am your share and your inheritance(B) among the Israelites.
Numbers 18:4-5
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4 They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.(A)
5 “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,(B) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.
Numbers 16:40
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40 as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense(A) before the Lord,(B) or he would become like Korah and his followers.(C)
Numbers 16:5-7
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5 Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to him and who is holy,(A) and he will have that person come near him.(B) The man he chooses(C) he will cause to come near him. 6 You, Korah, and all your followers(D) are to do this: Take censers(E) 7 and tomorrow put burning coals(F) and incense(G) in them before the Lord. The man the Lord chooses(H) will be the one who is holy.(I) You Levites have gone too far!”
Hebrews 5:4
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4 And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.(A)
Ephesians 3:8
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8 Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people,(A) this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles(B) the boundless riches of Christ,(C)
1 Samuel 2:28
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28 I chose(A) your ancestor out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense,(B) and to wear an ephod(C) in my presence. I also gave your ancestor’s family all the food offerings(D) presented by the Israelites.
Numbers 3:38
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38 Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp to the east(A) of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting.(B) They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary(C) on behalf of the Israelites. Anyone else who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.(D)
Numbers 1:51
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51 Whenever the tabernacle(A) is to move,(B) the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it.(C) Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.(D)
Leviticus 16:12-14
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12 He is to take a censer full of burning coals(A) from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense(B) and take them behind the curtain. 13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover(C) above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.(D) 14 He is to take some of the bull’s blood(E) and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.(F)
Leviticus 16:2
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Exodus 29:9
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9 and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons.[a](A) The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance.(B)
“Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Footnotes
- Exodus 29:9 Hebrew; Septuagint on them
Hebrews 9:3-6
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3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,(A) 4 which had the golden altar of incense(B) and the gold-covered ark of the covenant.(C) This ark contained the gold jar of manna,(D) Aaron’s staff that had budded,(E) and the stone tablets of the covenant.(F) 5 Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory,(G) overshadowing the atonement cover.(H) But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
6 When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly(I) into the outer room to carry on their ministry.
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