Leviticus 16:1

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The Day of Atonement The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons when they approached the presence of the LORD and died,

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  • Lev 10:1-2 : 1 Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do. 2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

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  • Lev 16:2-3
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    2and the LORD said to Moses:“Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the special curtain in front of the atonement lid that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement lid.

    3Day of Atonement Offerings“In this way Aaron is to enter into the sanctuary– with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

  • Num 3:4-5
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    4Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

    5The Assignment of the Levites The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:36
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    36The Atonement for the Rebellion(17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 22:1
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    1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 3:11
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    11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:20
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    20The Judgment on the Rebels The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 26:61
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    61But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

  • Num 4:1
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    1The Service of the Kohathites Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Lev 10:1-3
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    1Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

    2So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.

    3Moses then said to Aaron,“This is what the LORD spoke:‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.

  • Lev 21:1
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    1Rules for the Priests The LORD said to Moses:“Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron– say to them,‘For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,

  • Lev 10:8
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    8Perpetual Statutes the Lord Spoke to Aaron Then the LORD spoke to Aaron,

  • Lev 17:1-2
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    1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:

    2“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them:‘This is the word that the LORD has commanded:

  • Num 16:23
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    23So the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 4:17
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    17Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Lev 22:17
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    17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 30:11
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    11The Ransom Money The LORD spoke to Moses:

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    16Rules for the Priesthood The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 28:35
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    35The robe is to be on Aaron as he ministers, and his sound will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the LORD and when he leaves, so that he does not die.

  • Deut 10:6
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    6Conclusion of the Historical Resume“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene Jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

  • Lev 6:24
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    24The Sin Offering Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 10:16
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    16The Problem with the Inaugural Sin Offering Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, but it had actually been burnt. So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,

  • Exod 16:11
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    11and the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:40-41
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    40It was a memorial for the Israelites, that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to burn incense before the LORD, that he might not become like Korah and his company– just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 20:28
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    28And Moses removed Aaron’s garments and put them on his son Eleazar. So Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

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    21The Service of the Gershonites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 15:1
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    1Male Bodily Discharges The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

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    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 26:1
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    1A Second Census Required After the plague the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

  • Lev 11:1
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    1Clean and Unclean Land Creatures The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,

  • Num 16:46
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    46Then Moses said to Aaron,“Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD– the plague has begun!”

  • Lev 6:8
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    8Sacrificial Instructions for the Priests: The Burnt Offering(6:1) Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 4:19
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    19but in order that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint each man to his service and his responsibility.

  • Lev 8:1
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    1Ordination of the Priests Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 9:1
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    1Inauguration of Tabernacle Worship On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,

  • Num 3:1
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    1The Sons of Aaron Now these are the records of Aaron and Moses when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

  • Num 19:1
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    1The Red Heifer Ritual The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 8:22-23
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    22After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.

    23The Work of the Levites Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 13:1
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    1Infections on the Skin The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 2:1
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    1The Arrangement of the Tribes The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron:

  • Lev 10:6
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    6Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons,“Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the LORD has caused,

  • Lev 6:19
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    19The Grain Offering of the Priests Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

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    22The Priestly Benediction The LORD spoke to Moses: