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Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you not made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come to be consecrated for priestly service[a] with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what is not a god. 10 But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests serving Yahweh are the sons of Aaron, the Levites, according to their service. 11 They offer burnt offerings to Yahweh every morning[b] and every evening,[c] sweet spices of incense, and the rows of bread upon the pure table. And the golden lampstand with its lamps they keep kindled every evening,[d] for we are keeping the requirement of Yahweh our God, but you yourselves have forsaken him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 13:9 Literally “to fill his hand” (a Hebrew idiom for ordination)
  2. 2 Chronicles 13:11 Literally “in the morning, in the morning”
  3. 2 Chronicles 13:11 Literally “in the evening, in the evening”
  4. 2 Chronicles 13:11 Literally “in the evening, in the evening”