13 (A)The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. (B)Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should (C)make offerings before the Lord and (D)minister to him and (E)pronounce blessings in his name forever.

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20 (A)Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.

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Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen (A)them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and (B)by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.

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And (A)no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, (B)just as Aaron was.

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28 (A)Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, (B)to wear an ephod before me? (C)I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

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And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the (A)mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. And Aaron shall (B)burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he (C)dresses the lamps he shall burn it, and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations. You shall not offer (D)unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it. 10 (E)Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the (F)sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

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And another angel came and stood (A)at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with (B)the prayers of all the saints on (C)the golden altar before the throne,

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15 But when he (A)who had set me apart (B)before I was born,[a] and who (C)called me by his grace,

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 1:15 Greek set me apart from my mother's womb

Greeting

Paul, (A)a servant[a] of Christ Jesus, (B)called to be an apostle, (C)set apart for the gospel of God,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, (A)the Holy Spirit said, (B)“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul (C)for the work to which I have called them.”

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according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot (A)to enter (B)the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

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16 When men in the camp (A)were jealous of Moses
    and Aaron, (B)the holy one of the Lord,

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(A)Moses and Aaron were among his (B)priests,
    Samuel also was among those who (C)called upon his name.
    They (D)called to the Lord, and he answered them.

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18 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, (A)“It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, (B)but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.” 19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, (C)leprosy[a] broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. 21 (D)And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived (E)in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 26:19 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

(A)The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. (B)The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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59 The name of Amram's wife was (A)Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

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They shall keep guard over you and (A)over the whole tent, (B)but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar (C)lest they, and you, die. They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, (D)and no outsider shall come near you. And you shall (E)keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, (F)that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel. (G)And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. (H)They are a gift to you, given to the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting. And (I)you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and (J)that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift,[a] and (K)any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Behold, (L)I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you (M)as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:7 Hebrew service of gift

Duties of Priests and Levites

18 So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father's house with you shall (A)bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, (B)and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.

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46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for (A)wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.” 47 So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.

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35 And (A)fire came out from the Lord and consumed (B)the 250 men offering the incense.

36 [a] Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 37 “Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy. 38 As for the censers of (C)these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. (D)Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.” 39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, 40 to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so (E)that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the Lord said to him through Moses.

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  1. Numbers 16:36 Ch 17:1 in Hebrew

16 And Moses said to Korah, “Be present, you and all your company, (A)before the Lord, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. 17 And (B)let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, (C)250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” 18 So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

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23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus (A)you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,

24 The Lord (B)bless you and (C)keep you;
25 the Lord (D)make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord (E)lift up his countenance[a] upon you and give you peace.

27 (F)“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 6:26 Or face

27 To Kohath belonged the clan of the (A)Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.

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“Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. If any one of the house of Israel (A)kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp, and (B)does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man (C)shall be cut off from among his people. This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice (D)in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them (E)as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. And the priest shall (F)throw the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat (G)for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

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32 (A)And the priest who is anointed and (B)consecrated as priest in his father's place (C)shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments. 33 He shall make atonement for (D)the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for (E)the altar, and he shall make atonement for (F)the priests and for (G)all the people of the assembly.

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