Luke 1:8
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8 Once when he was serving as priest before God during his section’s turn of duty,(A)
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2 Chronicles 8:14
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14 According to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry alongside the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions for the several gates, for so David the man of God had commanded.(A)
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1 Chronicles 24:19
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19 These had as their appointed duty in their service to enter the house of the Lord according to the procedure established for them by their ancestor Aaron, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.(A)
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2 Chronicles 31:2
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2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, everyone according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and offerings of well-being, to minister in the gates of the camp of the Lord and to give thanks and praise.(A)
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Luke 1:5
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The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold
5 In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was descended from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.(A)
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Ezra 6:18
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18 Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their courses for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.(A)
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2 Chronicles 31:19
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19 And for the descendants of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of pastureland belonging to their towns, town by town, the people designated by name were to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.(A)
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2 Chronicles 11:14
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14 The Levites had left their pasturelands and possessions and had come to Judah and Jerusalem because Jeroboam and his sons had prevented them from serving as priests of the Lord(A)
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Numbers 18:7
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7 But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift;[a] any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”(A)
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- 18.7 Heb as a service of gift
Exodus 30:30
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30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to serve me as priests.(A)
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Exodus 29:44
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44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.(A)
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Exodus 29:9
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9 and you shall gird them, Aaron and his sons, with sashes and tie headdresses on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual ordinance. You shall then ordain Aaron and his sons.(A)
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Exodus 29:1
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The Ordination of the Priests
29 “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,(A)
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Exodus 28:41
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41 You shall put them on your brother Aaron and on his sons with him and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests.(A)
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Exodus 28:1
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Vestments for the Priesthood
28 “Then bring near to you your brother Aaron and his sons with him, from among the Israelites, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.(A)
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1 Chronicles 24:2
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2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.(A)
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