Garments for the Priesthood^(A)

28 “Now take ^(B)Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to Me as ^(C)priest, Aaron and Aaron’s sons: ^(D)Nadab, Abihu, ^(E)Eleazar, and Ithamar.

⁷ Therefore ^(A)you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and ^(B)behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a ^(C)gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Qualifications for High Priesthood

5 For every high priest taken from among men ^(A)is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. ² He can ^[a]have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to ^(B)weakness. ³ Because of this he is required as for the people, so also for ^(C)himself, to offer sacrifices for sins. ⁴ And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as ^(D)Aaron was.

A Priest Forever

^5 (E)So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:

¹⁸ And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It ^(A)is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the ^(B)priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.”

¹⁹ Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, ^(C)leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar. ²⁰ And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there, on his forehead, he was leprous; so they thrust him out of that place. Indeed he also ^(D)hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.

^21 (E)King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He dwelt in an ^(F)isolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord. Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

¹⁰ Johanan begot Azariah (it was he ^(A)who ministered as priest in the ^(B)temple^[a] that Solomon built in Jerusalem);