2 Chronicles 29:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the priests were too few and could not skin all the burnt offerings, so, until other priests had sanctified themselves, their kindred, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished, for the Levites were more conscientious than the priests in sanctifying themselves.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:6

But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.

2 Chronicles 29:33

The consecrated offerings were six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep.

2 Chronicles 29:5

He said to them, “Listen to me, Levites! Sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and carry out the filth from the holy place.

2 Chronicles 30:15

They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and they sanctified themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:24

For King Hezekiah of Judah gave the assembly a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for offerings, and the officials gave the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. The priests sanctified themselves in great numbers.

2 Chronicles 30:3

(for they could not keep it at its proper time because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem).

2 Chronicles 35:11

They slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood that they received from them, while the Levites did the skinning.

Ezra 6:20

For both the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Psalm 7:10

God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.

Psalm 94:15

for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Ezekiel 44:11

They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and serving in the temple; they shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall attend on them and serve them.

Numbers 18:3

They shall perform duties for you and for the whole tent. But they must not approach either the utensils of the sanctuary or the altar, or else both they and you will die.

Numbers 8:15

Thereafter the Levites may go in to do service at the tent of meeting, once you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevation offering.

Numbers 8:19

Moreover, I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the service for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the Israelites, in order that there may be no plague among the Israelites for coming too close to the sanctuary.”