And you and your sons after you shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and you shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die.

And they ministered in front of the tabernacle of witness, [playing] on instruments, until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they stood according to their order for their services.

and you appointed [others] to keep the charges in My sanctuary.

Therefore, brothers, select seven men from among you, of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint for this need.

But we will faithfully engage in prayer and in the ministry of the word."

whether ministry, [let us use it] in our ministry; whether teaching; in the teaching;

Meditate on these things; be in these things, so that your progress may be evident to all.

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

They that encamp before the tabernacle of witness on the east [shall be] Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charges of the sanctuary according to the charges of the children of Israel; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances [to touch it] die.

And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

a memorial to the children of Israel that no stranger might draw near, who is not of the seed of Aaron, to offer incense before the Lord; so he shall not be as Korah and as they that conspired with him, as the Lord spoke to him by the hand of Moses.

And they shall keep your charges, and the charges of the tabernacle; only they shall not approach the holy vessels and the altar, so both they and you shall not die.

And the sons of Jeconiah were not pleased with the men of Beth Shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; and the Lord struck fifty thousand and seventy men among them. And the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted on the people a very great plague.

And the Lord was very angry with Uzzah, and God struck him there; and he died there by the ark of the Lord before God.

And when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, [It is] not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but only for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to sacrifice: Leave the sanctuary, for you have departed from the Lord; and this shall not be for glory to you from the Lord God.

And Azariah the chief priest, and the [other] priests, turned [to look] at him, and behold, he [was] leprous in his forehead; and they got him out of there quickly, for he also hastened to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

and [having] a High Priest over the house of God,