Hebrews 8:4
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4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
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Hebrews 7:11-15
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Jesus Compared to Melchizedek
11 (A)Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. 13 For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended (B)from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
15 This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
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Hebrews 5:1
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5 For every high priest chosen from among men (A)is appointed to act on behalf of men (B)in relation to God, (C)to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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2 Chronicles 26:18-19
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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.
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- 2 Chronicles 26:19 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Numbers 18:5
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5 And you shall (A)keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, (B)that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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Numbers 17:12-13
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12 And the people of Israel said to Moses, “Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 13 (A)Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?”
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Numbers 16:40
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40 to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so (A)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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Hebrews 11:4
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4 By faith (A)Abel offered to God (B)a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And (C)through his faith, though he died, he (D)still speaks.
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