Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

Bible References

An altar

1 Corinthians 5:7
Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough -- you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?
1 Corinthians 10:17
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

Serve

Numbers 3:7
They are responsible for his needs and the needs of the whole community before the tent of meeting, by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 7:5
"Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires."

General references

Exodus 37:25
He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half -- a square -- and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.
Exodus 40:6
You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Isaiah 19:19
At that time there will be an altar for the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, as well as a sacred pillar dedicated to the Lord at its border.
Luke 5:38
Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

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