Bible Verses About The High Priest

The person burning them is to wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; afterwards, he may return to the camp.

"It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.

For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be clean before ADONAI from all your sins.

It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. "This is a permanent regulation.

The cohen anointed and consecrated to be cohen in his father's place will make the atonement; he will put on the linen garments, the holy garments;

he will make atonement for the Especially Holy Place; he will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar; and he will make atonement for the cohanim and for all the people of the community.

This is a permanent regulation for you, to make atonement for the people of Isra'el because of all their sins once a year." Moshe did as ADONAI had ordered him.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Speak to the cohanim, the sons of Aharon; tell them: 'No cohen is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies,

except for his close relatives -his mother, father, son, daughter and brother;

he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who has never married and is therefore dependent on him.

He may not make himself unclean, because he is a leader among his people; doing so would profane him.

Cohanim are not to make bald spots on their heads, mar the edges of their beards or cut gashes in their flesh.

Rather, they are to be holy for their God and not profane the name of their God. For they are the ones who present ADONAI with offerings made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they must be holy.

"'A cohen is not to marry a woman who is a prostitute, who has been profaned or who has been divorced; because he is holy for his God.

Rather, you are to set him apart as holy, because he offers the bread of your God; he is to be holy for you, because I, ADONAI, who makes you holy, am holy.

The daughter of a cohen who profanes herself by prostitution profanes her father; she is to be put to death by fire.

"'The cohen who is ranked highest among his brothers, the one on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who is consecrated to put on the garments, is not to stop grooming his hair, tear his clothes,

go in to where any dead body is or make himself unclean, even when his father or mother dies.

He may not leave the sanctuary then or profane the sanctuary of his God, because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am ADONAI.

But he will observe it in the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk. They are to eat it with matzah and maror,

they are to leave none of it until morning, and they are not to break any of its bones -they are to observe it according to all the regulations of Pesach.

But the person who is clean and not on a trip who fails to observe Pesach will be cut off from his people; because he did not bring the offering for ADONAI at its designated time, that person will bear the consequences of his sin.

If a foreigner is staying with you and wants to observe Pesach for ADONAI, he is to do it according to the regulations and rules of Pesach- you are to have the same law for the foreigner as for the citizen of the land.'"

On the day the tabernacle was put up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, that is, the tent of the testimony; and in the evening, over the tabernacle was what appeared to be fire, which remained until morning.

So the cloud always covered it, and it looked like fire at night.