High Priest, The

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• Exodus 28:1 OT

  “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

• Exodus 28:2 OT

  You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.

• Hebrews 5:4 NT

  Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

• Exodus 40:13 OT

  You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

• Leviticus 8:12 OT

  He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

• Exodus 29:30 OT

  Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.

• Nehemiah 7:65 OT

  The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.

• Acts 23:4 NT

  Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”

• Exodus 22:28 OT

  “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

• Acts 23:5 NT

  Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”

• Exodus 29:29 OT

  “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

• Lamentations 2:6 OT

  He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king…

• 1 Samuel 4:18 OT

  When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• Hebrews 5:1 NT

  For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

• Exodus 30:8 OT

  When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.

• Numbers 8:3 OT

  Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lamp stand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 16:1-34 OT

  Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came near before Yahweh, and died; and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before…

• Hebrews 9:7 NT

  but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

• Exodus 28:12 OT

  You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

• Exodus 28:29 OT

  Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.

• 1 Samuel 23:9-12 OT

  David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.” Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy…

• 1 Samuel 30:7 OT

  David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

• 1 Samuel 30:8 OT

  David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

• Numbers 9:11-21 OT

  In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the…