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.”

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10 So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, (A)and they shall attend to their priesthood; (B)but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

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15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, (A)because of the grace given to me by God, 16 that (B)I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the (C)offering [a]of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 15:16 Consisting of

27 John answered and said, (A)“A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

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20 Then the Lord said to Aaron: “You shall have (A)no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; (B)I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

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They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; (A)but an outsider shall not come near you. And you shall attend to (B)the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, (C)that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

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40 to be a [a]memorial to the children of Israel (A)that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses.

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  1. Numbers 16:40 reminder

and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is (A)His and who is (B)holy,[a] and will cause him to come near to Him. That one whom He chooses He will cause to (C)come near to Him. Do this: Take censers, Korah and all your company; put fire in them and put incense in them before the Lord tomorrow, and it shall be that the man whom the Lord chooses is the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, you sons of Levi!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:5 set aside for His use only

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called by God, just as (A)Aaron was.

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Purpose of the Mystery

To me, (A)who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles (B)the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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28 Did I not (A)choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod before Me? And (B)did I not give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

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38 (A)Moreover those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of meeting, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons, (B)keeping charge of the sanctuary, (C)to meet the needs of the children of Israel; but (D)the outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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51 (A)And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it (B)up. (C)The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

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12 Then he shall take (A)a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, with his hands full of (B)sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil. 13 (C)And he shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the (D)mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he (E)die. 14 (F)He shall take some of the blood of the bull and (G)sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before 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 (A)not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for (B)I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

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And you shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the hats on them. (A)The priesthood shall be theirs for a perpetual statute. So you shall (B)consecrate Aaron and his sons.

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(A)and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All, which had the (B)golden censer and (C)the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were (D)the golden pot that had the manna, (E)Aaron’s rod that budded, and (F)the tablets of the covenant; and (G)above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

Limitations of the Earthly Service

Now when these things had been thus prepared, (H)the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services.

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