Exodus 29:9 Cross References - NSB

⁹ »Then ordain them, because they and their descendants will have a long lasting priesthood.

¹ Jehovah continued: »Bring your brother Aaron and his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar to you from all the Israelites. They will serve me as priests.

⁴⁰ »Make linen robes, belts, and turbans for Aaron’s sons. These clothes will give them dignity and honor. ⁴¹ »Dress your brother Aaron and his sons in these clothes and anoint them, ordain them, and set them apart to serve me as priests.

²⁹ Moses said: »Today you are ordained as Jehovah’s. God gave you a blessing today. Each of you fought with your own sons and brothers.«

¹⁰ »Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to do the priests’ duties must be put to death.«

¹⁵ »Anoint them just as you anointed their father that they can serve me as priests. This anointing will make them priests for generations to come.«

²² He brought the second ram for the ordination offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram's head. ²³ Moses slaughtered it. He took some of the blood, and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe, on his right thumb, and on the big toe of his right foot. ²⁴ Moses also brought Aaron's sons forward. He put some of the blood on their right ear lobes, on their right thumbs, and on the big toes of their right feet. Moses threw the rest of the blood against all the sides of the altar. ²⁵ He took the fat from the tail, all the fat on the internal organs, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys with their fat, and the right thigh. ²⁶ He took a loaf of unleavened bread, a ring of bread made with olive oil. He took a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread in Jehovah’s presence. He put them on the fat and the right thigh. ²⁷ He placed all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons. Moses presented all these things to Jehovah as an offering. ²⁸ Then he took them from their hands and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar. These were ordination offerings, offerings by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

³³ »You will not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days. Do not leave until the last day of your ordination is over. It will take seven days to ordain you.

¹⁰ »He brought you and all the other Levites near. But now you demand to be priests.

³⁵ Fire came from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

⁴⁰ He followed Jehovah’s command given through Moses. The copper-covered altar will remind Israel that no one but a descendant of Aaron may come near to burn incense to Jehovah. Everyone else will die like Korah and his followers.

⁷ »Only you and your sons may do the work of priests, everything done at the altar and under the canopy. This is my gift to you: You may serve me as priests. Anyone else who comes near the holy place to do this work must die.«

¹³ »My promise is that he and his descendants will be priests for a very long time because he stood up for his God. He made peace with Jehovah for the Israelites.«

⁵ »Jehovah chose from all your tribes the tribe of Levi to serve him and his sons as priests forever.

⁴ No one takes this honor upon himself. He is called by God, even as Aaron was. ⁵ Also Christ did not glorify himself to be made a high priest. It was God who said to him: »You are my Son; I today have become your father.«

¹⁰ He was called by God to be a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹ If perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the Law, what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, instead of one named after the order of Aaron? ¹² The priesthood was changed, and therefore it is necessary to also change the Law. ¹³ The one about whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. ¹⁴ It is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

²³ There have been many priests. This is because they have been prevented from continuing by death. ²⁴ He continues forever and therefore has his priesthood without change. ²⁵ He is able to save completely those who approach God through him, because he is always alive to intercede for them. ²⁶ Such a high priest as this was suitable for us. He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and higher than the heavens. ²⁷ He does not have a day-by-day need as the high priests do, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people. He sacrificed for sin once for all when he offered up himself. ²⁸ The Law appoints men as high priests who have weakness. But the oath that came after the Law appointed the Son who is perfect forever.