100 Bible Verses About Ordination

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

Which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.

Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord.

That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;

But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.

Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.

To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.