By insolence the heedless make strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.
Numbers 16:10 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional He has allowed you to approach him, and all your brother Levites with you; yet you seek the priesthood as well! Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And that He has brought you near to Him, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you? Would you seek the priesthood also? American Standard Version (1901) and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and seek ye the priesthood also? Common English Bible He has allowed you and all your fellow Levites with you to approach him. Yet you also seek the priesthood? Catholic Public Domain Version Was the reason that he caused you and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, to approach him, so that you would even claim for yourselves the priesthood too, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren, the sons of Levi, to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also, |
By insolence the heedless make strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.
The Lord said to Aaron: You and your sons and your ancestral house with you shall bear responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, while you and your sons alone shall bear responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.
But you shall make a register of Aaron and his descendants; it is they who shall attend to the priesthood, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, so that they may assist him.
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
So Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.