Isaiah 66:21
Good News Translation
I will make some of them priests and Levites.

New Revised Standard Version
And I will also take some of them as priests and as Levites, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
I promise that some of them will be priests and others will be helpers in my temple. I, the LORD, have spoken.

New American Bible
Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 61:6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.

Exodus 19:6 And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

Jeremiah 13:18-22 Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. . . .

1 Peter 2:5,9 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. . . .

Revelation 1:6 And hath made us a kingdom, and priests to God and his Father. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 5:10 And hast made us to our God a kingdom and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. In these the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ: and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Context
God's Final Judgments Against the Wicked
20And they shall bring all your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and in coaches, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as if the children of Israel should bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21And I will take of them to be priests, and Levites, saith the Lord.22For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.…
Cross References
1 Peter 2:5
Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

Isaiah 61:6
But you shall be called the priests of the Lord: to you it shall be said: Ye ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and you shall pride yourselves in their glory.

Jeremiah 33:22
As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites my ministers.

Isaiah 66:20
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