Numbers 18:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

Aaron, thou

Numbers 17:3

Hebrews 4:15

Shall bear

General references

Numbers 17:3

Hebrews 5:4

Bible References

Aaron, thou

You must write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

Shall bear

No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days -- one day for a year -- you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

It will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts; it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance before the Lord.

They must keep my charge so that they do not incur sin on account of it and therefore die because they profane it. I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him.

When I say to the wicked, "You will certainly die," and you do not warn him -- you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked deed and wicked lifestyle so that he may live -- that wicked person will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

General references

You must write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.