Quotes about Priesthood

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.

How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.

Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

The Levites, however, have no portion among you, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the LORD. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received the inheritance that Moses the servant of the LORD gave them beyond the Jordan to the east.”

with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.

We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head.

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the Israelites.

then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.