Thematic Bible: The priests


Thematic Bible



They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the tent. However they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death. Verse ConceptsExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

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. Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Verse ConceptsAltarsOfferingsPermitted To Eat OfferingsServingLiveMinistryServing The ChurchWaiting Till Marriageworkingzealotspriests

I did today what Jehovah commanded me to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for you. Verse ConceptsGod Atoning

You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting. They shall eat those things used for their atonement and their ordination and consecration. A layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

the following regulations about the ritual purification of those of you cured of a dreaded skin disease: On the day you are to be pronounced clean, you should be brought to the priest. Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationPriests, Tasks In Nt Times

When he saw them he told them to go show themselves to the priests. They were cleansed on the way. Verse ConceptsLeprosyPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesMiracles Of ChristHealing LepersPeople Made Known

Jesus told him not to tell anyone. Show yourself to the priests and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTLeprosyOccupationsPriesthood, In NtPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesWitness To The GospelChrist Concealing ThingsChrist's OrdersPeople Made Knownpriests

If any of you have a sore on your skin or a boil or an inflammation that could develop into a dreaded skin disease, you shall be brought to the priest. Verse ConceptsLaw, OtHuman SkinBlemished People

If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you should be brought to the priest.

The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If in his opinion the sore looks the same and has not spread, he will isolate you for another seven days. The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If the sore has faded and has not spread, he will pronounce you ritually clean. It is only a sore. You will wash your clothes and be ritually clean. If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again. read more.
The priest will examine you again. If it has spread, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease. If any of you have a dreaded skin disease, you should be brought to the priest. He will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin that turns the hairs white and is full of pus, it is a chronic skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. There is no need to isolate you. You are obviously unclean. If the skin disease spreads and covers you from head to foot, the priest should examine you again. If he finds that it actually has covered the whole body, he will pronounce you ritually clean. If your whole skin has turned white you are ritually clean. The moment an open sore appears you are unclean. The priest will examine you again. If he sees an open sore, he will pronounce you unclean. An open sore means a dreaded skin disease. You are unclean. When the sore heals and becomes white again, you should go to the priest. He will examine you again. If the sore has turned white you are ritually clean. The priest will pronounce you clean. If you have a boil that has healed and if afterward a white swelling or a reddish-white spot appears where the boil was, you should go to the priest. The priest will examine you. If the spot seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it have turned white, he will pronounce you unclean. It is a dreaded skin disease that has started in the boil. If the priest examines it and finds that the hairs in it have not turned white and that it is not deeper than the surrounding skin, but is light in color, the priest will isolate you for seven days. If the spot spreads the priest shall pronounce you unclean. You are diseased. If it remains unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar left from the boil. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. In case any of you have been burned. If the raw flesh becomes white or reddish-white, the priest will examine it. If the hair on the affected area has turned white and the affected area looks deeper than the rest of the skin, an infectious skin disease has developed in the burn. The priest will pronounce you unclean. It is an infectious skin disease. But if the priest examines it and the hair in it is not white and the affected area is not deeper than the rest of the skin but has faded, the priest must put you in isolation for seven days. The priest will examine you again on the seventh day. If it is spreading it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you unclean. If the spot remains unchanged and does not spread and is light in color, it is not a dreaded skin disease. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean, because it is only a scar from the burn. When any of you, male or female, have a sore on your head or chin, the priest will examine it. If it seems to be deeper than the surrounding skin and the hairs in it are yellowish and thin, it is a dreaded skin disease. He will declare you unclean. If the priest examines you and finds the sore does not appear to be deeper than the surrounding skin, but there are still no healthy hairs in it, he will isolate you for seven days. The priest will examine the sore again on the seventh day. If it has not spread and there are no yellowish hairs in it and it does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, you will shave the head accept the area around the sore. The priest will isolate you for another seven days. The priest will again examine the sore on the seventh day. If it has not spread and does not seem to be deeper than the surrounding skin, he will declare you ritually clean. You will wash your clothes. You will be clean. If the sore spreads after you have been pronounced clean, the priest will examine you again. If the sore has spread, he need not look for yellowish hairs. You are obviously unclean. If in the priest's opinion the sore has not spread and healthy hairs are growing in it, the sore has healed. The priest will pronounce you ritually clean. When you, male or female, have white spots on the skin, the priest shall examine you. If the spots are dull white, it is only a blemish that has broken out on the skin. You are ritually clean. Loss of hair makes one bald not unclean. Hair losses from the forehead or the back of the head do not make one unclean. If a reddish-white sore appears on the bald spot, it is a dreaded skin disease. The priest will examine you. If there is a reddish-white sore, the priest will declare you unclean. You have a dreaded skin disease on your head.

Stay away from the infection of leprosy. Diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. I have commanded them, so be careful to obey. Verse ConceptsInstructionHygieneKeeping Man's Word

If the sore is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it and the hairs have not turned white, the priest will isolate you for seven days. Verse ConceptsQuarantiningHealingLonelinessQuarantineSeven DaysShallownessWhite HairWhite SpotsSeven Days For Legal Purposes

But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord Jehovah. Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To Goddrawing near to GodBlood Of SacrificesServanthood, And Worship Of GodPeople Going AstrayFat Of The Sacrifices

They will be ministers in my sanctuary and having oversight at the gates of the house. They will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them. Verse ConceptsGatesIn FrontKilling Sacrificesministering

Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod in my presences me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire from the sons of Israel? Verse ConceptsephodsIncenseFood For Priests Defined

You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one that was for Aaron and from the one that was for his sons. It will be for Aaron and his sons as their long lasting portion from the sons of Israel. It is a heave offering. It will be a heave offering from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their heave offering to Jehovah.


Jehovah said to Aaron: You, your sons, and your family will be responsible for any sins against the holy place. You and your sons will also be responsible for any sins you commit when you work as priests. Bring the other Levites from your ancestor's tribe to join you and help you and your sons serve in front of the tent of the words of my promise.

They are to fulfill their duties to you and their responsibilities for the tent. However they must not have any contact with sacred objects in the Holy Place or with the altar. If they do, both they and you will be put to death. Verse ConceptsExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

You and your sons alone must fulfill the responsibilities for the Holy Place and the altar. That way my anger will not again break out against the people of Israel. Verse ConceptsSanctuaryAction Lest God Be AngryResponsibility

He is a minister of the Holy Place and of the true Tabernacle, built by Jehovah and not man. Verse ConceptsSanctuaryThe Temple In HeavenThe Tabernacle