for the priests who are sanctified, of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not wander when the sons of Israel wandered, as the Levites wandered.
So that the house of Israel may not stray any more from after Me, and not be defiled again with all their transgressions; but they are to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
And the room facing northward is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar. They are the sons of Zadok who come near to Jehovah, of the sons of Levi, to minister to Him.
And you shall give to the priests of the Levites (they who are from the seed of Zadok, who approach to Me) a statement of the Lord Jehovah, to minister to Me, a bull, a son of the herd, for a sin offering.
But the Levites who have gone far from Me in the wandering of Israel, who wandered from Me, going after their idols, even they shall bear their iniquity.
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, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. And they shall bear their iniquity.
It is the holy portion of the land for the priests, it shall be for those ministering in the sanctuary who come near to minister to Jehovah. And it shall be for them a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.
And you shall remain at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night for seven days, and you shall keep the charge of Jehovah and shall not die; for so I have been commanded.
Fear nothing of what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some from you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.