Ezekiel 44:11
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
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Ezekiel 44:11
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
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Exodus 27:1
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.
Exodus 38:1
He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
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.
Psalms 51:15
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
Psalms 51:16
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 51:18
Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
Isaiah 61:8
“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
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Exodus 30:6
You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
Exodus 30:7
Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
Exodus 30:8
When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
Exodus 40:26
He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
Exodus 40:27
and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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Leviticus 8:31
Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
Leviticus 21:21
No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 21:22
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus 21:23
He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’ ”
Ezra 2:62
These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
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Numbers 3:6
“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.
Numbers 3:7
They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:8
They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:9
You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel.
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 8:14
Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the children of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 8:15
“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting. You shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.
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 8:19
I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, so that there will be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.”
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Numbers 3:32
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.
Numbers 31:30
Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
1 Chronicles 26:20
Of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of God’s house and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles 26:21
The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ households belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
1 Chronicles 26:22
The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26:23
Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
1 Chronicles 26:24
Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasuries.
1 Chronicles 26:25
His brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
1 Chronicles 26:26
This Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ households, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the army, had dedicated.
1 Chronicles 26:27
They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair Yahweh’s house.
1 Chronicles 26:28
All that Samuel the seer, Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated, whoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth and of his brothers.
1 Chronicles 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.
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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.
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.
Ezekiel 44:30
The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
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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Deuteronomy 18:5
For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in Yahweh’s name, him and his sons forever.
Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
Psalms 135:2
you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.
Romans 12:7
or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
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Deuteronomy 18:15
Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
1 Samuel 6:20
The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”
Psalms 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
Zechariah 3:1
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
Luke 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
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1 Chronicles 9:23
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of Yahweh’s house, even the house of the tent, as guards.
2 Chronicles 23:19
He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.
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.
Nehemiah 12:45
They performed the duty of their God and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.
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1 Chronicles 26:13
They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
1 Chronicles 26:14
The lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles 26:15
To Obed-Edom southward; and to his sons the storehouse.
1 Chronicles 26:16
To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.
1 Chronicles 26:17
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the storehouse two and two.
1 Chronicles 26:18
For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
1 Chronicles 26:19
These were the divisions of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.
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2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few, so that they could not skin all the burnt offerings. Therefore their brothers the Levites helped them until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves, for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles 30:17
For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 35:10
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
2 Chronicles 35:11
They killed the Passover lambs, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from their hands, and the Levites skinned them.
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Joshua 1:1
Now after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,
2 Kings 4:43
His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’ ”
2 Kings 6:15
When the servant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
2 Chronicles 9:4
the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house, there was no more spirit in her.
Ezra 8:17
I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo and his brothers the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
Psalms 103:21
Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
Psalms 104:4
He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
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Isaiah 1:24
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.
Isaiah 1:25
I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’
Isaiah 1:27
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:28
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Ezekiel 20:38
I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 20:39
“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Ezekiel 20:40
For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 20:41
I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 44:16
“They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
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1 Chronicles 26:2
Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
1 Chronicles 26:3
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, and Eliehoenai the seventh.
1 Chronicles 26:4
Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
1 Chronicles 26:5
Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles 26:6
Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
1 Chronicles 26:7
The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose relatives were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
1 Chronicles 26:8
All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom with their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.
1 Chronicles 26:9
Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen valiant men.
1 Chronicles 26:10
Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
1 Chronicles 26:11
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. All the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles 26:12
Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in Yahweh’s house.
Ezekiel 40:45
He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests who perform the duty of the house.
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Ezekiel 40:38
A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
Ezekiel 43:18
He said to me, “Son of man, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they make it, to offer burnt offerings on it, and to sprinkle blood on it.
Ezekiel 43:20
You shall take of its blood and put it on its four horns, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around. You shall cleanse it and make atonement for it that way.
Ezekiel 43:21
You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 43:22
“On the second day you shall offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
Ezekiel 43:23
When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without defect and a ram out of the flock without defect.
Ezekiel 43:24
You shall bring them near to Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Ezekiel 43:25
“Seven days you shall prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. They shall also prepare a young bull and a ram out of the flock, without defect.
Ezekiel 43:26
Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it. So shall they consecrate it.
Ezekiel 45:5
Twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, as a possession for themselves, for twenty rooms.
Romans 1:21
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Zechariah 5:6
I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land—
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Nehemiah 13:28
One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
Malachi 2:4
You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2:8
But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Malachi 2:9
“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
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John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
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1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon thrust Abiathar out from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfill Yahweh’s word which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
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.”
Ezekiel 43:19
You shall give to the Levitical priests who are of the offspring of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘a young bull for a sin offering.
Ezekiel 43:27
When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar and your peace offerings. Then I will accept you,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 13:15
Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
Hebrews 13:16
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
1 Peter 2:5
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
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