Bible Verses About Priests

Tell them, 'Any descendant of yours through all your generations who approaches the holy things that the people of Isra'el consecrate to ADONAI and is unclean will be cut off from before me; I am ADONAI.

"'Any descendant of Aharon with tzara'at or a discharge is not to eat the holy things until he is clean. Anyone who has touched a person made unclean by a dead body, or who has had a seminal emission,

or who has touched a reptile or insect that can make him unclean, or a man who is unclean for any reason and who can transmit to him his uncleanness -

the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and is not to eat the holy things unless he bathes his body in water.

After sunset he will be clean; and afterwards, he may eat the holy things; because they are his food.

But he is not to eat anything that dies naturally or is torn to death by wild animals and thereby make himself unclean; I am ADONAI.

"'No one who is not a cohen may eat anything holy, nor may a tenant or employee of a cohen eat anything holy.

But if a cohen acquires a slave, either through purchase or through his being born in his household, he may share his food.

If the daughter of a cohen is married to a man who is not a cohen, she is not to have a share of the food set aside from the holy things.

If a person eats holy food by mistake, he must add one-fifth to it and give the holy food to the cohen.

They are not to profane the holy things of the people of Isra'el that they have set apart for ADONAI

and thus cause them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, by eating their holy things; because I am ADONAI, who makes them holy.'"

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'After you enter the land I am giving you and harvest its ripe crops, you are to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the cohen.

He is to wave the sheaf before ADONAI, so that you will be accepted; the cohen is to wave it on the day after the Shabbat.

Outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting, Aharon is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before ADONAI ; this is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations.

He is always to keep in order the lamps on the pure menorah before ADONAI.

"You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.

Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before ADONAI.

Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to ADONAI in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.

Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before ADONAI ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.

They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

If the person is too poor to be evaluated, set him before the cohen, who will assign him a value in keeping with the means of the person who made the vow.

These were the names of the sons of Aharon the cohen, whom he anointed and ordained as cohanim.

You are to appoint Aharon and his sons to carry out the duties of cohanim; anyone else who involves himself is to be put to death."

Give the redemption money for these extra people to Aharon and his sons."