10 So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, (A)and they shall attend to their priesthood; (B)but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

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10 Appoint Aaron(A) and his sons to serve as priests;(B) anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”(C)

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39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned up had presented, and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar,

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39 So Eleazar the priest(A) collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death,(B) and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

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40 to be a [a]memorial to the children of Israel (A)that no outsider, who is not a descendant of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he might not become like Korah and his companions, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:40 reminder

40 as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense(A) before the Lord,(B) or he would become like Korah and his followers.(C)

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Therefore (A)you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and (B)behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a (C)gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

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But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain.(A) I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift.(B) Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.(C)

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