1 Chronicles 6:49
Good News Translation
Aaron and his descendants presented the offerings of incense and offered the sacrifices that were burnt on the altar. They were responsible for all the worship in the Most Holy Place and for the sacrifices by which God forgives Israel's sins. They did all this in accordance with the instructions given by Moses, God's servant.

New Revised Standard Version
But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, doing all the work of the most holy place, to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

Contemporary English Version
Only Aaron and his descendants were allowed to offer sacrifices and incense on the two altars at the sacred tent. They were in charge of the most holy place and the ceremonies to forgive sins, just as God's servant Moses had commanded.

New American Bible
However, it was Aaron and his sons who made the sacrifice on the altar for burnt offerings and on the altar of incense; they alone had charge of the holy of holies and of making atonement for Israel, as Moses, the servant of God, had commanded.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

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2513. B.C.

1491. Aaron.

Exodus 27:1-8 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high. . . .

Exodus 30:1-7 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood. . . .

Leviticus 1:5,7-9 And he shall immolate the calf before the Lord: and the priests the sons of Aaron shall offer the blood thereof, pouring it round about the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle. . . .

Leviticus 8:1-10:20 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Leviticus 21:1-22:33 The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens. . . .

Numbers 16:16-50 And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord to morrow, and Aaron apart. . . .

Numbers 17:1-13 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Deuteronomy 18:1-8 The priests and Levites, and all that are of the same tribe, shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel, because they shall eat the sacrifices of the Lord, and his oblations, . . .

Hebrews 7:11-14 If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be called according to the order of Aaron? . . .

make an atonement.

Exodus 29:33,36,37 That it may be an atoning sacrifice, and the hands of the offerers may be sanctified. A stranger shall not eat of them, because they are holy. . . .

Exodus 30:10-16 And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 4:20 Doing so with this calf, as he did also with that before. And the priest praying for them, the Lord will be merciful unto them.

Numbers 15:25 And the priest shall pray for all the multitude of the children of Israel: and it shall be forgiven them, because they sinned ignorantly, offering notwithstanding a burnt offering to the Lord for themselves and for their sin and their Ignorance:

Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.

Job 33:24 He shall have mercy on him, and shall say: Deliver him, that he may not go down to corruption: I have found wherein I may be merciful to him.

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Moses.

Deuteronomy 34:5 And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the commandment of the Lord:

Joshua 1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him:

Context
The Descendants of Aaron
48Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord. 49But Aaron and his sons offered burnt offerings upon the altar of holocausts, and upon the altar of incense, for every work of the holy of holies: and to pray for Israel according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.50And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinees his son, Abisue his son,…
Cross References
Exodus 27:1
Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.

Exodus 30:1
Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.

Exodus 30:10
And Aaron shall pray upon the horns thereof once a year, with the blood of that which was offered for sin; and shall make atonement upon it in your generations. It shall be most holy to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 6:48
Their brethren also the Levites, who were appointed for all the ministry of the tabernacle of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 6:48
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