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Numbers 3:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Anointing;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Consecration;   Surrendered Life, Characteristics of;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ithamar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Anointing;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Messiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ithamar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Consecrate, Consecration;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ithamar ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Anointing;   Camp and encamp;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anointing,;   Ith'amar;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anointing;   Consecrate;   Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anointing;   Hafṭarah;   High Priest;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These are the names of the sons of Aharon, the Kohanim who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the Kohen's office.
King James Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
Lexham English Bible
These are the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom he consecrated as priests.
New Century Version
These were the names of Aaron's sons, who were appointed to serve as priests.
New English Translation
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
Amplified Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom Aaron consecrated and ordained to minister in the priest's office.
New American Standard Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the anoynted Priests, whom Moses did consecrate to minister in the Priests office.
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister as priests.
Contemporary English Version
were the ones to be ordained as priests.
Complete Jewish Bible
These were the names of the sons of Aharon the cohen, whom he anointed and ordained as cohanim.
Darby Translation
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, who were consecrated to exercise the priesthood.
Easy-to-Read Version
These sons were the chosen priests. They were given the special work of serving the Lord as priests.
English Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
George Lamsa Translation
These are the names of the sons of Aaron the priest, who were anointed and consecrated to minister in the priests office.
Good News Translation
They were anointed and ordained as priests,
Christian Standard Bible®
These are the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.
Literal Translation
These are the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed priests whose hands he consecrated to act as priests.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are ye names of the sonnes of Aaron, which were anoynted to be prestes, & their handes fylled for ye presthode.
American Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
Bible in Basic English
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron whiche were priestes annoynted, and whose hande was consecrated to minister.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
King James Version (1611)
These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the Priests, which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the Priests office.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests whom they consecrated to the priesthood.
English Revised Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
Berean Standard Bible
These were Aaron's sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
preestis, that weren anoyntid, and whos hondis weren fillid and halewid, that thei schulden `be set in preesthod.
Young's Literal Translation
these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.
Update Bible Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to serve in the priest's office.
Webster's Bible Translation
These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
World English Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests who were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
New King James Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he consecrated to minister as priests.
New Living Translation
These sons of Aaron were anointed and ordained to minister as priests.
New Life Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the chosen religious leaders. Aaron set them apart to work as religious leaders.
New Revised Standard
these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister as priests.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
These, are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, - who were installed to minister as priests.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These the names of the sons of Aaron the priests that were anointed, and whose hands were filled and consecrated, to do the functions of priesthood.
Revised Standard Version
these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to minister in the priest's office.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the family tree of Aaron and Moses at the time God spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2The names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar—anointed priests ordained to serve as priests. But Nadab and Abihu fell dead in the presence of God when they offered unauthorized sacrifice to him in the Wilderness of Sinai. They left no sons, and so only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father, Aaron. 5 God spoke to Moses. He said, "Bring forward the tribe of Levi and present them to Aaron so they can help him. They shall work for him and the whole congregation at the Tent of Meeting by doing the work of The Dwelling. Their job is to be responsible for all the furnishings of The Dwelling, ministering to the affairs of The Dwelling as the People of Israel come to perform their duties. Turn the Levites over to Aaron and his sons; they are the ones assigned to work full time for him. Appoint Aaron and his sons to minister as priests; anyone else who tries to elbow his way in will be put to death." 11 God spoke to Moses: "I have taken the Levites from among the People of Israel as a stand-in for every Israelite mother's firstborn son. The Levites belong to me. All the firstborn are mine—when I killed all the firstborn in Egypt, I consecrated for my own use every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They belong to me. I am God ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: Exodus 28:41, Exodus 40:13, Exodus 40:15, Leviticus 8:2, Leviticus 8:12, Leviticus 8:30

whom he consecrated: Heb. whose hand he filled, Exodus 29:1-37, Leviticus 8:1 - Leviticus 9:24, Hebrews 7:28

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:30 - anoint Leviticus 10:1 - Nadab Leviticus 10:2 - fire Numbers 17:3 - General Hebrews 5:4 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
Genesis 3:13
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
Genesis 3:16
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."
Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
Genesis 20:6
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family."
Job 1:11
"But what do you think would happen if you reached down and took away everything that is his? He'd curse you right to your face, that's what."
Job 19:21
"Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me. God has come down hard on me! Do you have to be hard on me, too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed,.... With the holy, anointing oil, with which they were anointed when, Aaron was and they only, see Exodus 30:30;

whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office; that is, whom Moses consecrated, by anointing them, putting the priest's garments on them, offering sacrifice for them, and filling their hands with sacrifices which is the phrase here used for consecration: see

Exodus 29:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

whom he consecrated - i. e. whom Moses consecrated, or literally as in the margin, whose “hand he filled,” by conferring their office upon them (Leviticus 8:1 ff).


 
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