Thematic Bible: Had charge of the sanctuary and altar
Thematic Bible
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You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.
"You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.