Numbers 3:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

Then the Lord became angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there in God’s presence.

1 Kings 12:31

He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the common people who were not Levites. Divine Disapproval.

1 Chronicles 6:32

son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

Nehemiah 6:11

My answer was: “A man like me take flight? Should a man like me enter the temple to save his life? I will not go!”

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 44:8

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

Leviticus 22:10

Neither an unauthorized person nor a priest’s tenant or laborer may eat of any sacred offering.

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 16:10

He has allowed you and your Levite kinsmen with you to approach him, and yet you seek the priesthood too.

Numbers 16:35

And fire from the Lord came forth which consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

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 18:7

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.

Numbers 3:11

The Lord said to Moses:

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.

Romans 12:7

if ministry, in ministering; if one is a teacher, in teaching;

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God,

Deuteronomy 18:5

For the Lord, your God, has chosen him out of all your tribes to be in attendance to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his descendants for all time.

Hebrews 8:4

If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law.

Judges 17:5

The man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

1 Samuel 6:19

The descendants of Jeconiah did not join in the celebration with the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh when they saw the ark of the Lord, and seventy of them were struck down. The people mourned over this great calamity which the Lord had inflicted upon them.