Luke 1:8 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁸ Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Now while on duty, serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

Common English Bible

⁸ One day Zechariah was serving as a priest before God because his priestly division was on duty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Then it happened that, when he was exercising the priesthood before God, in the order of his section,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And it came to pass, when he executed the priestly function in the order of his course before God,

Luke 1:8 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 24:19

This was their appointed order of ministering when they entered the temple of the Lord, according to the regulations prescribed for them by their ancestor Aaron, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

1 Chronicles 24:2

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.

2 Chronicles 11:14

The Levites even abandoned their pasture-lands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord

2 Chronicles 31:19

As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farmlands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites.

2 Chronicles 31:2

Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions – each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites – to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the Lord’s dwelling.

2 Chronicles 8:14

In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day’s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.

Ezra 6:18

And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

Exodus 28:1

‘Let Aaron your brother be brought to you from among the Israelites, with his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, so that they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 28:41

After you put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint and ordain them. Consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 29:1

‘This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests: take a young bull and two rams without defect.

Exodus 29:44

‘So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.

Exodus 29:9

and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. ‘Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

Exodus 30:30

‘Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.

Numbers 18:7

But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.’

Luke 1:5

In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.

Luke 1:7

But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.