Bible Verses About Priests

`Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him--even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah.

`Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue--of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him,

or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness--

the person who cometh against it--hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water,

and the sun hath gone in, and he hath been clean, and afterwards he doth eat of the holy things, for it is his food;

a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah.

`And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing;

and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread.

`And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, --she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

`And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given it to the priest, with the holy thing;

and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel--that which they lift up to Jehovah,

nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest,

then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it.

at the outside of the vail of the testimony in the tent of meeting doth Aaron arrange it from evening till morning before Jehovah continually--a statute age-during to your generations;

by the pure candlestick he doth arrange the lights before Jehovah continually.

`And thou hast taken flour, and hast baked twelve cakes with it, two tenth deals are in the one cake,

and thou hast set them two ranks (six in the rank) on the pure table before Jehovah,

and thou hast put on the rank pure frankincense, and it hath been to the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to Jehovah.

`On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel--a covenant age-during;

and it hath been to Aaron, and to his sons, and they have eaten it in the holy place, for it is most holy to him, from the fire-offerings of Jehovah--a statute age-during.'

`And if he is poorer than thy valuation, then he hath presented himself before the priest, and the priest hath valued him; according to that which the hand of him who is vowing doth reach doth the priest value him.

these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.

`And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'