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Bible Verses About Priests

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  1. he was chosen by lot (according to the custom among the cohanim) to enter the Temple and burn incense.

  2. Don’t you know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple, and those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrifices offered there?

  3. Now the descendants of Levi who became cohanim have a commandment in the Torah to take a tenth of the income of the people, that is, from their own brothers, despite the fact that they too are descended from Avraham.

  4. Therefore, if it had been possible to reach the goal through the system of cohanim derived from Levi (since in connection with it, the people were given the Torah), what need would there have been for another, different kind of cohen, the one spoken of as to be compared with Malki-Tzedek and not to be compared with Aharon?

  5. Now every cohen stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

  6. But this one, after he had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God,

  7. But you are a chosen people, the King’s cohanim, a holy nation, a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.