⁷ But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain.^(A) I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift.^(B) Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.^(C)”

¹⁰ Appoint Aaron^(A) and his sons to serve as priests;^(B) anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”^(C)

¹⁵ Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me^{(A) 16} to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.^(B) He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,^(C) so that the Gentiles might become an offering^(D) acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

²⁷ To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.

²⁰ The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them;^(A) I am your share and your inheritance^(B) among the Israelites.

⁴ They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.^(A)

⁵ “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,^(B) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.

⁴⁰ as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense^(A) before the Lord,^(B) or he would become like Korah and his followers.^(C)

⁵ Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the Lord will show who belongs to him and who is holy,^(A) and he will have that person come near him.^(B) The man he chooses^(C) he will cause to come near him. ⁶ You, Korah, and all your followers^(D) are to do this: Take censers^{(E) 7} and tomorrow put burning coals^(F) and incense^(G) in them before the Lord. The man the Lord chooses^(H) will be the one who is holy.^(I) You Levites have gone too far!”

⁴ And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.^(A)