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Aaron was made high priest and charged with the responsibility of making offerings for the sins of the people and ensuring that the LORD was worshipped in the proper manner. His priesthood was to pass to his descendants, thus ensuring its continuity.

Aaron was high priest

His call to the priesthood

Numbers 3:10 See also Exodus 28:1; 1 Samuel 12:6; Psalm 99:6; Hebrews 5:4

His anointing, ordination and consecration

Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:7-9; Leviticus 8:12,14,22,27,30

His priestly garments

Exodus 28:2 See also Exodus 28:4,36,42; Leviticus 8:7-9

The significance of the priestly garments

Exodus 28:9-12,30,34-35,36-38

Skilled craftsmen were employed in the making of the priestly garments

Exodus 31:6,10

Fellow Levites were to help Aaron in ministry

Numbers 18:2

Aaron's priestly privileges

In sacrificial offerings

Exodus 29:27-28,32-33; Leviticus 2:3; Leviticus 7:35-36; Numbers 18:8-9,11-13

In tithes

Numbers 18:28; Nehemiah 10:37

In cities allotted to his descendants

Joshua 21:19

Aaron's priestly responsibilities

Respect for the holiness of the LORD and his sanctuary

Leviticus 10:3 See also Leviticus 10:1-2; Leviticus 22:1-2; Numbers 18:7

Keeping ritually clean

Leviticus 21:10-12

Tending the lamps in the Tent of Meeting

Exodus 27:21; Exodus 30:7

Obeying the LORD's commands about sacrificial ritual and offerings

Leviticus 6:8-9,14,24-25; Leviticus 7:1,11,37; Leviticus 9:22; Numbers 18:8

Taking responsibility for the offences against the sanctuary and the priesthood

Numbers 18:1

The future of Aaron's priesthood

The LORD's requirements are to stand for all time

Exodus 30:8; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 22:3

The priesthood continues through Aaron's descendants

Numbers 20:28

Aaron's priesthood compared with Melchizedek's

See also Hebrews 7:11

See also

1350  covenant with Israel's priests
2306  Christ, high priest
4681  ram
6616  atonement in OT
7376  high priest
7390  Levites
7412  priesthood
7435  sacrifice, in OT
7766  priests
8266  holiness
8488  tithing