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according to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
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Verse 9. It was his lot. The priests drew lots for the different functions to be performed in the same week; and now it fell by lot to Zachary, to burn or offer up incense, morning and evening, in that part of the temple called the holy, where was the altar of incense: Zachary was in this part of the tabernacle. Witham.—See Exod. 30:6, 8.
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