And (A)you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and (B)that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift,[a] and (C)any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:7 Hebrew service of gift

10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and (A)they shall guard their priesthood. But if (B)any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.”

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Behind (A)the second curtain was a second section[a] called the Most Holy Place, having the golden (B)altar of incense and (C)the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was (D)a golden urn holding the manna, and (E)Aaron's staff that budded, and (F)the tablets of the covenant. Above it were (G)the cherubim of glory overshadowing (H)the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

These preparations having thus been made, (I)the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,

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  1. Hebrews 9:3 Greek tent; also verses 6, 8

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

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To me, (A)though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, (B)to preach to the Gentiles the (C)unsearchable (D)riches of Christ,

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15 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, (A)because of the grace given me by God 16 to be (B)a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles (C)in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that (D)the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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27 John answered, (A)“A person cannot receive even one thing (B)unless it is given him (C)from heaven.

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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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20 And the Lord said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. (A)I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

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They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, (A)and no outsider shall come near you. And you shall (B)keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, (C)that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.

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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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and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the Lord will show (A)who is his,[a] and who is (B)holy, and will bring him near to him. The one (C)whom he chooses he will (D)bring near to him. Do this: take (E)censers, Korah and all his company; put fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. (F)You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:5 Septuagint The Lord knows those who are his

38 Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, (A)guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect[a] the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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  1. Numbers 3:38 Hebrew guard

51 (A)When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. (B)And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.

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12 And he shall take (A)a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil 13 (B)and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover (C)the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die. 14 And (D)he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

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and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to (A)come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For (B)I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

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and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with (A)sashes and bind caps on them. And (B)the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall (C)ordain Aaron and his sons.

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