Hebrews 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 28:1 : 1 "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, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
  • 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.
  • 2 Chr 26:18 : 18 and they resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, "It isn't for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God."
  • Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
  • Num 16:5 : 5 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.
  • Num 16:7 : 7 and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!"
  • Num 16:10 : 10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?
  • Num 16:35 : 35 Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
  • Num 16:46-48 : 46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun." 47 Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and behold, the plague has begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 48 He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
  • Num 17:3-9 : 3 You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses. 4 You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 5 It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you." 6 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. 7 Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony. 8 It happened on the next day, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. 9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die." 11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
  • Num 18:1-5 : 1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony. 3 They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you. 4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you. 5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
  • Num 18:7 : 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
  • John 3:27 : 27 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
  • Num 3:3 : 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
  • Lev 8:2 : 2 "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 5:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

    6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 5:3
    74%

    3 Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

  • Heb 5:10
    74%

    10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:1
    73%

    1 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.

  • Exod 40:13
    72%

    13 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.

  • Num 3:3
    71%

    3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

  • Num 18:1
    71%

    1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

  • Exod 30:30
    70%

    30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

  • Exod 28:1-3
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    70%

    1 "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, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

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

    3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.

  • Exod 28:41
    70%

    41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

  • Heb 8:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

    3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

    4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

  • Num 4:19
    69%

    19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

  • Lev 10:8
    69%

    8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,

  • Lev 8:12
    69%

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

  • Heb 7:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

    21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'"

  • Num 4:17
    69%

    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 18:8
    69%

    8 Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "I, behold, I have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel; to you have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

  • Lev 21:21
    69%

    21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest who has a blemish, shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

  • Exod 29:29
    69%

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

  • Exod 29:21
    68%

    21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

  • Lev 21:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    17 "Say to Aaron, 'None of your seed throughout their generations who has a blemish, may approach to offer the bread of his God.

  • 1 Chr 6:49
    68%

    49 But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

  • Lev 22:2
    68%

    2 "Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they make holy to me, and that they not profane my holy name. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 9:1
    68%

    1 It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

  • Lev 10:3
    68%

    3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.

  • Heb 7:13
    68%

    13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

  • Lev 8:30
    68%

    30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

  • Num 27:20
    68%

    20 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

  • Num 16:10
    68%

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Heb 3:3
    68%

    3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

  • Heb 7:28
    68%

    28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  • Lev 16:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

    3 "Herewith shall Aaron come into the sanctuary: with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

  • Num 4:1
    67%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Lev 7:35
    67%

    35 This is the anointing portion of Aaron, and the anointing portion of his sons, out of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to Yahweh in the priest's office;

  • Exod 29:9
    67%

    9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

  • Lev 21:23
    67%

    23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"

  • Heb 7:11
    67%

    11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

  • 1 Chr 23:13
    67%

    13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

  • Exod 28:38
    67%

    38 It shall be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

  • Exod 29:35
    67%

    35 "You shall do so to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.

  • Deut 18:5
    67%

    5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.