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They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.

On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.

Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

…just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.

But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

…but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

…to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

…lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

…that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.