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First notice of persons acting as - Ge 4:3,4
During patriarchal age heads of families acted as - Ge 8:20; 12:8; 35:7
After the exodus young men (first-born) deputed to act as - Ex 24:5; 19:22
The sons of Aaron appointed as, by perpetual statute - Ex 29:9; 40:15
All except seed of Aaron excluded from being - Nu 3:10; 16:40; 18:7
Sanctified by God for the office - Ex 29:44
Publicly consecrated - Ex 28:3; Nu 3:3
CEREMONIES AT CONSECRATION OF
- Washing in water
- Ex 29:4; Le 8:6- Clothing with the holy garments
- Ex 29:8,9; 40:14; Le 8:13- Anointing with oil
- Ex 30:30; 40:13- Offering sacrifices
- Ex 29:10-19; Le 8:14-23- Purification by blood of the consecration ram
- Ex 29:20,21; Le 8:23,24- Placing in their hands the wave-offering
- Ex 29:22-24; Le 8:25-27- Partaking of the sacrifices of consecration
- Ex 29:31-33; Le 8:31,32- Lasted seven days
- Ex 29:35-37; Le 8:33Required to remain in the tabernacle seven days after consecration - Le 8:33-36
No blemished or defective persons could be consecrated - Le 21:17-23
Required to prove their genealogy before they exercised the office - Ezr 2:62; Ne 7:64
GARMENTS OF
- The coat or tunic
- Ex 28:40; 39:27- The girdle
- Ex 28:40- The bonnet
- Ex 28:40; 39:28- The linen breeches
- Ex 28:42; 39:28- Worn at consecration
- Ex 29:9; 40:15- Worn always while engaged in the service of the tabernacle
- Ex 28:43; 39:41- Worn by the high priest on the day of atonement
- Le 16:4- Purified by sprinkling of blood
- Ex 29:21- Laid up in holy chambers
- Eze 44:19- Often provided by the people
- Ezr 2:68,69; Ne 7:70,72Required to wash in the brazen laver before they performed their services - Ex 30:18-21
SERVICES OF
- Keeping the charge of the tabernacle
- Nu 18:1,5,7- Covering the sacred things of the sanctuary before removal
- Nu 4:5-15- Offering sacrifices
- Le 1:1-6:30; 2Ch 29:34; 35:11- Lighting and trimming the lamps of the sanctuary
- Ex 27:20,21; Le 24:3,4- Keeping the sacred fire always burning on the altar
- Le 6:12,13- Burning incense
- Ex 20:7,8; Lu 1:9- Placing and removing show-bread
- Le 24:5-9- Offering first fruits
- Le 23:10,11; De 26:3,4- Blessing the people
- Nu 6:23-27- Purifying the unclean
- Le 15:30,31- Deciding in cases of jealousy
- Nu 5:14,15- Deciding in cases of leprosy
- Le 13:2-59; 14:34-45- Judging in cases of controversy
- De 17:8-13; 21:5- Teaching the law
- De 33:8,10; Mal 2:7- Blowing the trumpets on various occasions
- Nu 10:1-10; Jos 6:3,4- Carrying the ark
- Jos 3:6,17; 6:12- Encouraging the people when they went to war
- De 20:1-4- Valuing things devoted
- Le 27:8Were to live by the altar as they had no inheritance - De 18:1,2; 1Co 9:13
REVENUES OF
- Tenth of the tithes paid to the Levites
- Nu 18:26,28; Ne 10:37,38; Heb 7:5- First-fruits
- Nu 18:8,12,13; De 18:4- Redemption-money of the first-born
- Nu 3:48,51; 18:15,16- First-born of animals or their substitutes
- Nu 18:17,18; Ex 13:12,13- First of the wool of sheep
- De 18:4- Show-bread after its removal
- Le 24:9; 1Sa 21:4-6; Mt 12:4- Part of all sacrifices
- Le 7:6-10,31,34; Nu 6:19,20; 18:8-11; De 18:3- All devoted things
- Nu 18:14- All restitutions when the owner could not be found
- Nu 5:8- A fixed portion of the spoil taken in war
- Nu 31:29,41Thirteen of the Levitical cities given to, for residence - 1Ch 6:57-60; Nu 35:1-8
Might purchase and hold other lands in possession - 1Ki 2:26; Jer 32:8,9
SPECIAL LAWS RESPECTING
- Not to marry divorced or improper persons
- Le 21:7- Not to defile themselves for the dead except the nearest of
kin - Le 21:1-6- Not to drink wine, &c while attending in the tabernacle
- Le 10:9; Eze 44:21- Not to defile themselves by eating what died or was torn
- Le 22:8- While unclean could not perform any service
- Le 22:1,2; Nu 19:6,7- While unclean could not eat of the holy things
- Le 22:3-7- No sojourner or hired servant to eat of their portion
- Le 22:10- All bought and home-born servants to eat of their portion
- Le 22:11- Children of, married to strangers, not to eat of their
portion - Le 22:12- Restitution to be made to, by persons ignorantly eating of
their holy things - Le 22:14-16Divided by David into twenty-four courses - 1Ch 24:1-19; 2Ch 8:14; 35:4,5
The four courses which returned from Babylon subdivided into 24 - Ezr 2:36-39; Lu 1:5
Each course of, had its president or chief - 1Ch 24:6,31; 2Ch 36:14
Services of, divided by lot - Lu 1:9
Punishment for invading the office of - Nu 16:1-35; 18:7; 2Ch 26:16-21
On special occasions persons not of Aaron's family acted as - Jud 6:24-27; 1Sa 7:9; 1Ki 18:33
WERE SOMETIMES
- Greedy
- 1Sa 2:13-17- Drunken
- Isa 28:7- Profane and wicked
- 1Sa 2:22-24- Unjust
- Jer 6:13- Corrupters of the law
- Isa 28:7; Mal 2:8- Slow to sanctify, themselves for God's services
- 2Ch 29:34Generally participated in punishment of the people - Jer 14:18; La 2:20
Made of the lowest of the people by Jeroboam and others - 1Ki 12:21; 2Ki 17:32
Services of, ineffectual for removing sin - Heb 7:11; 10:11
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Christ
- Heb 10:11,12- Saints
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