So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.

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

“‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.

“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

The rules you set down are completely reliable. Holiness aptly adorns your house, O Lord, forever.

For the Lord vindicates his people, and has compassion on his servants.

If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

As the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,