OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 18:5

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For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the LORD’s name, him and his sons forever.

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Verse 5. Stand. This was the usual posture of the priests ministering in the temple, as well as of people praying.—Minister. Sam. and Septuagint add, “and to bless in,” and so forth

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