Numbers 18:7

New American Bible - revised edition

But you and your sons with you must take care to exercise your priesthood in whatever concerns the altar and the area within the veil. I give you your priesthood as a gift. Any unauthorized person who comes near shall be put to death. The Priests’ Share of the Sacrifices.

Cross References

Psalm 115:10

The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord, who is their help and shield.

Exodus 28:1

Have your brother Aaron, and with him his sons, brought to you, from among the Israelites, that they may be my priests: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Exodus 29:9

gird them with the sashes, and tie the skullcaps on them. Thus shall the priesthood be theirs by a perpetual statute, and thus shall you install Aaron and his sons. Installation Sacrifices.

Ezekiel 44:15

As for the levitical priests, sons of Zadok, who took charge of my sanctuary when the Israelites strayed from me, they may approach me to serve me and stand before me to offer the fat and the blood—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 44:16

They may enter my sanctuary; they may approach my table to serve me and carry out my service.

Ezekiel 44:8

Instead of caring for the service of my sanctuary, you appointed these foreigners to care for the service of my sanctuary.

Leviticus 16:2

and said to him: Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he pleases into the inner sanctuary, inside the veil, in front of the cover on the ark, lest he die, for I reveal myself in a cloud above the ark’s cover.

Leviticus 7:35

This is the priestly share from the oblations for the Lord, allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were brought forth to be the priests of the Lord,

Numbers 1:51

When the tabernacle is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; when the tabernacle is to be pitched, it is the Levites who shall set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it shall be put to death.

Numbers 18:20

Then the Lord said to Aaron: You shall not have any heritage in their land nor hold any portion among them; I will be your portion and your heritage among the Israelites. Tithes Due the Levites.

Numbers 18:3

They shall discharge your obligations and those with respect to the whole tent; however, they shall not come near the utensils of the sanctuary or the altar, or else both they and you will die.

Numbers 3:10

But you will appoint only Aaron and his descendants to exercise the priesthood. Any unauthorized person who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 3:38

East of the tabernacle, that is, in front of the tent of meeting, toward the sunrise, were camped Moses and Aaron and the latter’s sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary incumbent upon the Israelites. Any unauthorized person who came near was to be put to death.

Matthew 10:8

Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.

John 3:27

John answered and said, “No one can receive anything except what has been given him from heaven.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, the very least of all the holy ones, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the inscrutable riches of Christ,

Deuteronomy 18:2

They shall have no heritage among their kindred; the Lord himself is their heritage, as he has told them.

Hebrews 5:4

No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.

Joshua 18:7

For the Levites have no share among you, because the priesthood of the Lord is their heritage; while Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received the heritage east of the Jordan which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them.”

1 Peter 5:2

Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

1 Peter 5:3

Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock.

1 Samuel 2:28

I chose them out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priests, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear the ephod in my presence; and I assigned all the fire offerings of the Israelites to your father’s house.