Numbers 18:3
They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
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Numbers 18:3
They shall keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent; only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they nor you.
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Genesis 29:34
She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.
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Exodus 32:26
then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!” All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
Numbers 3:39
All who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
Numbers 3:41
You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the livestock of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the livestock of the children of Israel.”
Numbers 3:42
Moses counted, as Yahweh commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:43
All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
Numbers 3:44
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 3:45
“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock; and the Levites shall be mine. I am Yahweh.
Numbers 8:16
For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.
Numbers 8:18
I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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Leviticus 1:5
He shall kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 1:6
He shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.
2 Chronicles 29:22
So they killed the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They killed the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They also killed the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.
2 Chronicles 29:23
They brought near the male goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands on them.
2 Chronicles 29:24
Then the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:16
They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.
Hebrews 9:21
He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
Hebrews 9:22
According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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Leviticus 10:6
Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
Leviticus 22:2
“Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Jeremiah 23:15
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
Ezekiel 44:8
You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”
Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Acts 20:29
For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Acts 20:30
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
1 Timothy 4:14
Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
2 Timothy 4:1
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
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Numbers 4:19
but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
Numbers 16:9
Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
2 Chronicles 29:11
My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers and burn incense.”
2 Chronicles 31:2
Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.
2 Chronicles 35:3
He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
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Numbers 8:6
“Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Numbers 8:7
You shall do this to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.
Numbers 8:8
Then let them take a young bull and its meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and another young bull you shall take for a sin offering.
Numbers 8:9
You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 8:10
You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,
Numbers 8:11
and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
Numbers 8:12
“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.
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Numbers 16:35
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 5:1
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Hebrews 8:4
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,
Hebrews 10:19
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:20
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
Hebrews 10:21
and having a great priest over God’s house,
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Numbers 16:46
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
Numbers 16:47
Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the middle of the assembly. The plague had already begun among the people. He put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
Numbers 16:48
He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
1 Samuel 7:9
Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel, and Yahweh answered him.
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Numbers 18:21
“To the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:23
But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. Among the children of Israel, they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers 26:57
These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Numbers 35:2
“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 12:19
Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
Deuteronomy 14:27
You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
Deuteronomy 18:6
If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,
2 Chronicles 11:13
The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel stood with him out of all their territory.
2 Chronicles 23:2
They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 12:44
On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them according to the fields of the cities the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who served.
Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Numbers 31:47
even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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2 Samuel 6:3
They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
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1 Chronicles 6:48
Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
1 Chronicles 6:49
But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
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1 Chronicles 9:27
They stayed around God’s house, because that was their duty; and it was their duty to open it morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9:28
Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service, for these were brought in by count, and these were taken out by count.
1 Chronicles 9:29
Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
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1 Chronicles 16:4
He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
1 Chronicles 16:37
So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;
1 Chronicles 16:38
and Obed-Edom with their sixty-eight relatives; Obed-Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
1 Chronicles 16:39
and Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,
1 Chronicles 16:40
to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;
1 Chronicles 16:41
and with them Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;
1 Chronicles 16:42
and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
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2 Chronicles 13:10
“But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests serving Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work.
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2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against Yahweh his God, for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:17
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.
2 Chronicles 26:18
They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”
2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:20
Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead; and they thrust him out quickly from there. Indeed, he himself also hurried to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
2 Chronicles 26:21
Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from Yahweh’s house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
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Numbers 18:8
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
Isaiah 66:21
Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 33:17
For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.
Jeremiah 33:18
The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
Jeremiah 33:19
Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah 33:20
“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time,
Jeremiah 33:21
then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”
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2 Kings 23:9
Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to Yahweh’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
Ezekiel 44:10
“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 44:12
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 44:14
Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein.
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Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
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Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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