<p class="bodytext">These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their leaders, had assigned responsibilities, like their relatives, as they served in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.p>

The robe<n id="1" /> is to be on Aaron as he ministers,<n id="2" /> and his sound will be heard<n id="3" /> when he enters the Holy Place before the <sc>Lordsc> and when he leaves, so that he does not die.p>

The priest who succeeds him<n id="1" /> from his sons, when he first comes<n id="2" /> to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, is to wear them for seven days.<n id="3" />p>

When they enter<n id="1" /> the tent of meeting, they must wash with<n id="2" /> water so that they do not die.<n id="3" /> Also, when they approach<n id="4" /> the altar to minister by burning incense<n id="5" /> as an offering made by fire<n id="6" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>,

the woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to minister as priests.&#8221;p>

There was<n id="1" /> a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering,<n id="2" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.p>

the woven garments for serving<n id="1" /> in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments for his sons to minister as priests.p>

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand<n id="1" /> and serve in his name<n id="2" /> permanently.

The priests could not carry out their duties<n id="1" /> because of the cloud; the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s glory filled his temple.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">David<n id="1" /> left Asaph and his colleagues there before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s covenant to serve before the ark regularly and fulfill each day&#8217;s requirements,<n id="2" />

The priests could not carry out their duties<n id="1" /> because of the cloud; the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s splendor filled God&#8217;s temple.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;What you plan<n id="1" /> will never happen. You say, &#8220;We will be<n id="2" /> like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.&#8221;<n id="3" />

On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the <sc>Lordsc> to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.<n id="1" />

These must be on Aaron and his sons when they enter<n id="1" /> to the tent of meeting, or when they approach<n id="2" /> the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they bear no iniquity and die.<n id="3" /> It is to be a perpetual ordinance for him and for his descendants<n id="4" /> after him.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary; they made holy garments that were for Aaron, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.<n id="1" />p>

The person who pays no attention<n id="1" /> to the priest currently serving the <sc>Lordsc> your God there, or to the verdict &#8211; that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks<n id="1" /> &#8211; to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sanctuary.<n id="2" />p>