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Exodus 27:1-8
“ Using acacia wood, construct a square altar 7 1/2 feet wide, 7 1/2 feet long, and 4 1/2 feet high.Make horns for each of its four corners so that the horns and altar are all one piece. Overlay the altar with bronze.Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.Make a bronze grating for it, and attach four bronze rings at its four corners.Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.For carrying the altar, make poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the altar.The altar must be hollow, made from planks. Build it just as you were shown on the mountain.
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Exodus 30:1-7
“ Then make another altar of acacia wood for burning incense.Make it 18 inches square and 36 inches high, with horns at the corners carved from the same piece of wood as the altar itself.Overlay the top, sides, and horns of the altar with pure gold, and run a gold molding around the entire altar.Make two gold rings, and attach them on opposite sides of the altar below the gold molding to hold the carrying poles.Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.Place the incense altar just outside the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant, in front of the Ark’s cover— the place of atonement— that covers the tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant. I will meet with you there.“ Every morning when Aaron maintains the lamps, he must burn fragrant incense on the altar.
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Leviticus 4:20
just as he does with the bull offered as a sin offering for the high priest. Through this process, the priest will purify the people, making them right with the Lord, and they will be forgiven.
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Exodus 30:10-16
“ Once a year Aaron must purify the altar by smearing its horns with blood from the offering made to purify the people from their sin. This will be a regular, annual event from generation to generation, for this is the Lord’s most holy altar.”Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Whenever you take a census of the people of Israel, each man who is counted must pay a ransom for himself to the Lord. Then no plague will strike the people as you count them.Each person who is counted must give a small piece of silver as a sacred offering to the Lord.( This payment is half a shekel, based on the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)All who have reached their twentieth birthday must give this sacred offering to the Lord.When this offering is given to the Lord to purify your lives, making you right with him, the rich must not give more than the specified amount, and the poor must not give less.Receive this ransom money from the Israelites, and use it for the care of the Tabernacle. It will bring the Israelites to the Lord’s attention, and it will purify your lives.”
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Leviticus 21:1-22
The Lord said to Moses,“ Give the following instructions to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.“ A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean by touching the dead body of a relative.The only exceptions are his closest relatives— his mother or father, son or daughter, brother,or his virgin sister who depends on him because she has no husband.But a priest must not defile himself and make himself unclean for someone who is related to him only by marriage.“ The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.They must be set apart as holy to their God and must never bring shame on the name of God. They must be holy, for they are the ones who present the special gifts to the Lord, gifts of food for their God.“ Priests may not marry a woman defiled by prostitution, and they may not marry a woman who is divorced from her husband, for the priests are set apart as holy to their God.You must treat them as holy because they offer up food to your God. You must consider them holy because I, the Lord, am holy, and I make you holy.“ If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she also defiles her father’s holiness, and she must be burned to death.“ The high priest has the highest rank of all the priests. The anointing oil has been poured on his head, and he has been ordained to wear the priestly garments. He must never leave his hair uncombed or tear his clothing.He must not defile himself by going near a dead body. He may not make himself ceremonially unclean even for his father or mother.He must not defile the sanctuary of his God by leaving it to attend to a dead person, for he has been made holy by the anointing oil of his God. I am the Lord.“ The high priest may marry only a virgin.He may not marry a widow, a woman who is divorced, or a woman who has defiled herself by prostitution. She must be a virgin from his own clan,so that he will not dishonor his descendants among his clan, for I am the Lord who makes him holy.”Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Give the following instructions to Aaron: In all future generations, none of your descendants who has any defect will qualify to offer food to his God.No one who has a defect qualifies, whether he is blind, lame, disfigured, deformed,or has a broken foot or arm,or is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or has a defective eye, or skin sores or scabs, or damaged testicles.No descendant of Aaron who has a defect may approach the altar to present special gifts to the Lord. Since he has a defect, he may not approach the altar to offer food to his God.However, he may eat from the food offered to God, including the holy offerings and the most holy offerings.
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Numbers 15:25
With it the priest will purify the whole community of Israel, making them right with the Lord, and they will be forgiven. For it was an unintentional sin, and they have corrected it with their offerings to the Lord— the special gift and the sin offering.
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Leviticus 1:5
Then slaughter the young bull in the Lord’s presence, and Aaron’s sons, the priests, will present the animal’s blood by splattering it against all sides of the altar that stands at the entrance to the Tabernacle.
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Exodus 29:33
They alone may eat the meat and bread used for their purification in the ordination ceremony. No one else may eat them, for these things are set apart and holy.
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Leviticus 1:7-9
The sons of Aaron the priest will build a wood fire on the altar.They will arrange the pieces of the offering, including the head and fat, on the wood burning on the altar.But the internal organs and the legs must first be washed with water. Then the priest will burn the entire sacrifice on the altar as a burnt offering. It is a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 18:1-8
“ Remember that the Levitical priests— that is, the whole of the tribe of Levi— will receive no allotment of land among the other tribes in Israel. Instead, the priests and Levites will eat from the special gifts given to the Lord, for that is their share.They will have no land of their own among the Israelites. The Lord himself is their special possession, just as he promised them.“ These are the parts the priests may claim as their share from the cattle, sheep, and goats that the people bring as offerings: the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.You must also give to the priests the first share of the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and the wool at shearing time.For the Lord your God chose the tribe of Levi out of all your tribes to minister in the Lord’s name forever.“ Suppose a Levite chooses to move from his town in Israel, wherever he is living, to the place the Lord chooses for worship.He may minister there in the name of the Lord his God, just like all his fellow Levites who are serving the Lord there.He may eat his share of the sacrifices and offerings, even if he also receives support from his family.
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Deuteronomy 34:5
So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, just as the Lord had said.
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Exodus 29:36-37
Each day you must sacrifice a young bull as a sin offering to purify them, making them right with the Lord. Afterward, cleanse the altar by purifying it; make it holy by anointing it with oil.Purify the altar, and consecrate it every day for seven days. After that, the altar will be absolutely holy, and whatever touches it will become holy.
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Numbers 16:16-17:13
And Moses said to Korah,“ You and all your followers must come here tomorrow and present yourselves before the Lord. Aaron will also be here.You and each of your 250 followers must prepare an incense burner and put incense on it, so you can all present them before the Lord. Aaron will also bring his incense burner.”So each of these men prepared an incense burner, lit the fire, and placed incense on it. Then they all stood at the entrance of the Tabernacle with Moses and Aaron.Meanwhile, Korah had stirred up the entire community against Moses and Aaron, and they all gathered at the Tabernacle entrance. Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to the whole community,and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,“ Get away from all these people so that I may instantly destroy them!”But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.“ O God,” they pleaded,“ you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?”And the Lord said to Moses,“ Then tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”So Moses got up and rushed over to the tents of Dathan and Abiram, followed by the elders of Israel.“ Quick!” he told the people.“ Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don’t touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, you will be destroyed for their sins.”So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives and children and little ones.And Moses said,“ This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these things that I have done— for I have not done them on my own.If these men die a natural death, or if nothing unusual happens, then the Lord has not sent me.But if the Lord does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have shown contempt for the Lord.”He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.All the people around them fled when they heard their screams.“ The earth will swallow us, too!” they cried.Then fire blazed forth from the Lord and burned up the 250 men who were offering incense.And the Lord said to Moses,“ Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to pull all the incense burners from the fire, for they are holy. Also tell him to scatter the burning coals.Take the incense burners of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and hammer the metal into a thin sheet to overlay the altar. Since these burners were used in the Lord’s presence, they have become holy. Let them serve as a warning to the people of Israel.”So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 bronze incense burners that had been used by the men who died in the fire, and the bronze was hammered into a thin sheet to overlay the altar.This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized person— no one who was not a descendant of Aaron— should ever enter the Lord’s presence to burn incense. If anyone did, the same thing would happen to him as happened to Korah and his followers. So the Lord’s instructions to Moses were carried out.But the very next morning the whole community of Israel began muttering again against Moses and Aaron, saying,“ You have killed the Lord’s people!”As the community gathered to protest against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tabernacle and saw that the cloud had covered it, and the glorious presence of the Lord appeared.Moses and Aaron came and stood in front of the Tabernacle,and the Lord said to Moses,“ Get away from all these people so that I can instantly destroy them!” But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground.And Moses said to Aaron,“ Quick, take an incense burner and place burning coals on it from the altar. Lay incense on it, and carry it out among the people to purify them and make them right with the Lord. The Lord’s anger is blazing against them— the plague has already begun.”Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague had already begun to strike down the people, but Aaron burned the incense and purified the people.He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Tell the people of Israel to bring you twelve wooden staffs, one from each leader of Israel’s ancestral tribes, and inscribe each leader’s name on his staff.Inscribe Aaron’s name on the staff of the tribe of Levi, for there must be one staff for the leader of each ancestral tribe.Place these staffs in the Tabernacle in front of the Ark containing the tablets of the Covenant, where I meet with you.Buds will sprout on the staff belonging to the man I choose. Then I will finally put an end to the people’s murmuring and complaining against you.”So Moses gave the instructions to the people of Israel, and each of the twelve tribal leaders, including Aaron, brought Moses a staff.Moses placed the staffs in the Lord’s presence in the Tabernacle of the Covenant.When he went into the Tabernacle of the Covenant the next day, he found that Aaron’s staff, representing the tribe of Levi, had sprouted, budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds!When Moses brought all the staffs out from the Lord’s presence, he showed them to the people. Each man claimed his own staff.And the Lord said to Moses:“ Place Aaron’s staff permanently before the Ark of the Covenant to serve as a warning to rebels. This should put an end to their complaints against me and prevent any further deaths.”So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.Then the people of Israel said to Moses,“ Look, we are doomed! We are dead! We are ruined!Everyone who even comes close to the Tabernacle of the Lord dies. Are we all doomed to die?”
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Hebrews 7:11-14
So if the priesthood of Levi, on which the law was based, could have achieved the perfection God intended, why did God need to establish a different priesthood, with a priest in the order of Melchizedek instead of the order of Levi and Aaron?And if the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it.For the priest we are talking about belongs to a different tribe, whose members have never served at the altar as priests.What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe.
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Job 33:24
he will be gracious and say,‘ Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.’
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Leviticus 8:1-10
Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Bring Aaron and his sons, along with their sacred garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of bread made without yeast,and call the entire community of Israel together at the entrance of the Tabernacle.”So Moses followed the Lord’s instructions, and the whole community assembled at the Tabernacle entrance.Moses announced to them,“ This is what the Lord has commanded us to do!”Then he presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.He put the official tunic on Aaron and tied the sash around his waist. He dressed him in the robe, placed the ephod on him, and attached the ephod securely with its decorative sash.Then Moses placed the chestpiece on Aaron and put the Urim and the Thummim inside it.He placed the turban on Aaron’s head and attached the gold medallion— the badge of holiness— to the front of the turban, just as the Lord had commanded him.Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the Tabernacle and everything in it, making them holy.
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Joshua 1:1
After the death of Moses the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant. He said,
