And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘Ask the priests about the law. ¹ 

Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.) ¹ 

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release ¹  Barabbas instead.

Then ¹  one of them ²  struck the high priest’s slave, ³  cutting off his right ear.

The chief priests and the experts in the law ¹  were there, vehemently accusing him. ² 

Then ¹  Pilate called together the chief priests, the ²  rulers, and the people,

And the others ¹  who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them ²  from continuing in office, ³ 

But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: ¹  Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork ²  in his hand.

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five ¹  men who wore the linen ephod.

(Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) ¹ 

In the cities of the priests, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in making disbursements to their fellow priests ¹  according to their divisions, regardless of age. ² 

As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the outskirts of all their cities, ¹  men were assigned ²  to disburse portions to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed in the genealogical records.

The priests and the Levites had purified themselves, every last one, ¹  and they all were ceremonially pure. They sacrificed the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their colleagues ²  the priests, and for themselves.

Let the priests also, who approach the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break through ¹  against them.”

“You are to anoint Aaron and his sons and ¹  sanctify them, so that they may minister as my priests.