‘Let your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest #– #Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’
Moses spoke to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar: ‘Take the grain offering that is left over from the food offerings to the Lord, and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, because it is especially holy.
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorised fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.
and the specially woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary #– #the holy garments for the priest Aaron and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.’
Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and his sons.
for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of the Lord.
Out of all the tribes of Israel, I chose your house to be my priests, to offer sacrifices on my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your forefather’s family all the Israelite food offerings.
Amram’s sons: Aaron and Moses. Aaron, along with his descendants, was set apart for ever to consecrate the most holy things, to burn incense in the presence of the Lord, to minister to him, and to pronounce blessings in his name for ever.