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Exodus 27:1-8
“ You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar.And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.And the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.
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Exodus 30:1-7
“ You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,
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Leviticus 4:20
Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.
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Exodus 30:10-16
Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”The Lord said to Moses,“ When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the Lord when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary( the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the Lord’s offering.The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the Lord’s offering to make atonement for your lives.You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the Lord, so as to make atonement for your lives.”
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Leviticus 21:1-22
And the Lord said to Moses,“ Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,or his virgin sister( who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord’s food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.“ The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.And he shall take a wife in her virginity.A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,
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Numbers 15:25
And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake.
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Leviticus 1:5
Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
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Exodus 29:33
They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.
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Leviticus 1:7-9
and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.And Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar;but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 18:1-8
“ The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings as their inheritance.They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.“ And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives— and he may come when he desires— to the place that the Lord will choose,and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
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Deuteronomy 34:5
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord,
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Exodus 29:36-37
and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
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Numbers 16:16-17:13
And Moses said to Korah,“ Be present, you and all your company, before the Lord, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”And they fell on their faces and said,“ O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.And he spoke to the congregation, saying,“ Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.And Moses said,“ Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not sent me.But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said,“ Lest the earth swallow us up!”And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so 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.But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying,“ You have killed the people of the Lord.”And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.And Moses said to Aaron,“ Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.”So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers’ house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. Write each man’s name on his staff,and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each fathers’ house.Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”Moses spoke to the people of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.And Moses deposited the staffs before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the Lord to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.And the Lord said to Moses,“ Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”Thus did Moses; as the Lord commanded him, so he did.And the people of Israel said to Moses,“ Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?”
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Hebrews 7:11-14
Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood( for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
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Job 33:24
and he is merciful to him, and says,‘ Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;
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Leviticus 8:1-10
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.And Moses said to the congregation,“ This is the thing that the Lord has commanded to be done.”And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.And he put the coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band.And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses.Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
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Joshua 1:1
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant,
