Consecration of Priests

Question 1

For the building of the tabernacle, what chapter and book included the directions for the consecration of the sons of Aaron?

Answer 1

Exodus 29

Question 2

What book and chapter is the actual consecration described?

Answer 2

Leviticus 8-10

Question 3

What is the emphasis of the consecration of priests?

Answer 3

The priests are stamped with “divine approval”

Question 4

How is the improper use of priesthood presented?

Answer 4

Highly dangerous

Question 5

What class of priests were depicted as subordinate to the descendants of Aaron?

Answer 5

Levites

[b/c they serve in the tent of meeting as explained in Numbers 18]

Question 6

Who is a descendant of Aaron that joined the rebellion against Moses and Aaron?

Answer 6

Korah

Question 7

How is the rebellion against Moses and Aaron resolved?

Answer 7

The earth opens and swallows Korah and his followers

Question 8

How would you describe the judgement against Nadah and Abihu, and of Korah and his followers?

Answer 8

Instantaneous

divine judgement in the book of Numbers

Question 9

What do the Priestly writers claim?

Answer 9

1. Absolute, divine authority for cultic order

2. Aaronide priesthood is divinely ordained to a higher rank than the Levites

Question 10

What is the basis of the rebellion of Aaron and Miriam?

Answer 10

Because of the Cushite woman he married

Question 11

How would you describe marriage to a foreign woman in the post-exilic period?

Answer 11

Controversial issue (in Judah)

Question 12

How did Numbers describe the authority of Moses?

Answer 12

No one should question Moses; regardless of what he may have done