2 Chronicles 31 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property. ² Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house. ³ And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the Sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord. ⁴ In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord. ⁵ And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. ⁶ And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses. ⁷ The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete. ⁸ And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods. ¹⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used. ¹¹ Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done. ¹² And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him. ¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God. ¹⁴ And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. ¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great: ¹⁶ As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions. ¹⁷ And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions; ¹⁸ And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given. ¹⁹ And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites. ²⁰ This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. ²¹ And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

¹⁹ And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram: ²⁰ And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.

¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

¹² Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you. ²⁸ Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it. ²⁹ Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care. ³⁰ For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

²³ And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

²⁹ Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.

¹⁹ The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

²⁴ Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

³⁸ Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly. ³⁹ One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening: ⁴⁰ And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁴² This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.

²² And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

²⁶ Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk

⁵ Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;

²⁰ And all the children of Israel went away from Moses. ²¹ And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes. ²² They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord. ²³ And everyone who had blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair and sheepskins coloured red and leather, gave them. ²⁴ Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it. ²⁵ And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen. ²⁶ And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth. ²⁷ And the rulers gave the beryls and the cut jewels for the ephod and the priest's bag; ²⁸ And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes. ²⁹ The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.

⁵ And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do. ⁶ So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.

¹⁰ And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.

¹⁶ And whatever is over Aaron and his sons may have for their food, taking it without leaven in a holy place; in the open space of the Tent of meeting they may take a meal of it. ¹⁷ It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error.

¹ And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy. ² They are to put to death the offering for wrongdoing in the same place as the burned offering; and the priest is to put the blood on and round the altar. ³ And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering. ⁴ And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away: ⁵ They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing. ⁶ Every male among the priests may have it as food in a holy place: it is most holy.

¹² And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy. ¹³ It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

²² He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy; ²³ But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.

¹⁸ Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;

² Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts. ³ On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living. ⁴ These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times. ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover; ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work. ⁸ And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest; ¹¹ And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. ¹² And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord. ¹³ And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. ¹⁴ And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. ¹⁵ And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering; ¹⁶ Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.

¹⁶ Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord. ¹⁷ Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

¹⁷ Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord. ¹⁸ And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

¹⁸ And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord. ¹⁹ And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings.

¹⁹ And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings. ²⁰ And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest.

²⁰ And these will be waved by the priest, with the bread of the first-fruits, for a wave offering to the Lord, with the two lambs: they will be holy to the Lord for the priest. ²¹ And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

²¹ And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. ²² And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.

²² And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God. ²³ And the Lord said to Moses,

²³ And the Lord said to Moses, ²⁴ Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.

²⁴ Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship. ²⁵ Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire. ²⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ²⁷ The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire. ²⁸ And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God. ²⁹ For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people. ³⁰ And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people. ³¹ You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living. ³² Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, ³⁴ Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days. ³⁵ On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work. ³⁶ Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day. ³⁷ These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day; ³⁸ In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord.

³⁸ In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord. ³⁹ But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same. ⁴⁰ On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days. ⁴¹ And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept. ⁴² For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places: ⁴³ So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. ⁴⁴ And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.

²¹ Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

³⁴ But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

⁴ Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit; ⁵ And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

²⁸ But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

³⁰ And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

³⁰ And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord. ³¹ And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more. ³² And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord. ³³ He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.

¹⁵ Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.

³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

³⁸ And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families,

⁴² And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

⁴⁶ And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

²⁴ This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;

² Say to the children of Israel that they are to give you rods, one for every family, for every chief, the head of his father's house, making twelve rods; let every man's name be placed on his rod. ³ And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.

⁸ And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil. ⁹ This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons. ¹⁰ As most holy things they are to be your food: let every male have them for food; it is to be holy to you. ¹¹ And this is yours: the lifted offering which they give and all the wave offerings of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as your right for ever: everyone in your house who is clean may have them for food. ¹² All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

¹² All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them. ¹³ The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food. ¹⁴ Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours. ¹⁵ The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts. ¹⁶ Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel. ¹⁷ But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord. ¹⁸ Their flesh is to be yours; like the breast of the wave offering and the right leg, it is to be yours. ¹⁹ All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever. ²⁰ And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel. ²¹ And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

²⁶ Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord. ²⁷ And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines. ²⁸ So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell. ³ Say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you are to give to the Lord; he-lambs of the first year without any mark, two every day as a regular burned offering. ⁴ Let one be offered in the morning, and the other at evening; ⁵ And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil. ⁶ It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁷ And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord. ⁸ Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord. ⁹ And on the Sabbath day, two he-lambs of the first year, without any mark, and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering: ¹⁰ This is the burned offering for every Sabbath day, in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ¹¹ And on the first day of every month you are to give a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark; ¹² And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep; ¹³ And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ¹⁴ And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year. ¹⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering and its drink offering. ¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover. ¹⁷ On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes. ¹⁸ On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work: ¹⁹ And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁰ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep; ²¹ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ²² And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin. ²³ These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times. ²⁴ In this way, every day for seven days, give the food of the offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord: it is to be offered in addition to the regular burned offering, and its drink offering. ²⁵ Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work. ²⁶ And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work: ²⁷ And give a burned offering for a sweet smell to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year; ²⁸ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ²⁹ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ³⁰ And one he-goat to take away your sin. ³¹ These are in addition to the regular burned offering and its meal offering; take care that they are without any mark, and let them be offered with their drink offerings.

¹ In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns; ² And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them: ³ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ⁴ And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin: ⁶ In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁷ And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work; ⁸ And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used: ⁹ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep, ¹⁰ A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs; ¹¹ One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days; ¹³ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them; ¹⁴ And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep, ¹⁵ And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ¹⁷ On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them; ¹⁸ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ¹⁹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark; ²¹ And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ²² And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²³ And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁴ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered. ²⁵ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²⁶ And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ²⁷ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ²⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ²⁹ And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³⁰ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³¹ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings. ³² And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³³ And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³⁴ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ³⁵ On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work; ³⁶ And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark: ³⁷ With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered: ³⁸ And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ³⁹ These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

³⁹ These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave the children of Israel all these directions as the Lord had given him orders.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns. ³ These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts, ⁴ Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round. ⁵ The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

⁵ But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

¹² And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,

⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

¹⁷ In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;

²⁸ At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

¹ Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night. ² The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name. ³ Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life. ⁴ For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning. ⁵ The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you: ⁶ But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt. ⁷ It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents. ⁸ For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done. ⁹ Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut. ¹⁰ Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

¹⁰ Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you: ¹¹ Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name. ¹² And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws. ¹³ You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine: ¹⁴ You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you. ¹⁵ Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy. ¹⁶ Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands; ¹⁷ Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.

⁸ The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

⁹ So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

⁷ Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings. ⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

⁹ From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name: ¹⁰ These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution. ¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. ¹² But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. ¹³ And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands; ¹⁴ And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; ¹⁵ And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; ¹⁶ And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes. ¹⁷ And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands; ¹⁸ Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. ¹⁹ Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.

⁹ Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord.

¹⁸ And after David had made the burned offerings and the peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord of armies.

⁴ So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

³⁵ And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.

¹⁴ Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together. ¹⁵ And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to David my father, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

⁵⁵ And, getting on his feet, he gave a blessing to all the men of Israel, saying with a loud voice,

⁵ Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

³⁸ Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain. ³⁹ And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. ⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

⁴³ But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over. ⁴⁴ So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.

¹⁵ And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.

² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

⁴ He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

² And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord. ³ And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement. ⁴ Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el. ⁵ And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven. ⁶ And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest. ⁷ And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah. ⁸ And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town. ⁹ Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers. ¹⁰ And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech. ¹¹ And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire. ¹² And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron. ¹³ And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean. ¹⁴ The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead. ¹⁵ And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned. ¹⁶ Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said: ¹⁷ What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el. ¹⁸ So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria. ¹⁹ Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el. ²⁰ And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

⁸ And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

¹⁴ And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;

⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ⁵⁵ To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ⁵⁶ But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ⁵⁸ And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ⁵⁹ And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.

⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.

¹¹ And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

²² There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.

⁴ And he put some of the Levites before the ark of the Lord as servants, to keep the acts of the Lord in memory, and to give worship and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel: ⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly; ⁶ And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests, blowing horns all the time before the ark of the agreement of God.

³⁷ So he made Asaph and his brothers keep their places there before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, to do whatever had to be done before the ark at all times day by day:

⁴⁰ To give burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of burned offerings morning and evening, every day, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord which he gave to Israel; ⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;

¹³ And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.

¹⁹ Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

¹ Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel. ² And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. ³ And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

³ And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority; ⁵ Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise. ⁶ And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷ Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. ⁸ The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three. ⁹ The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan. ¹⁰ And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. ¹¹ Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family. ¹² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever. ¹⁴ And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. ¹⁶ The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first. ¹⁷ And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number. ¹⁸ The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first. ¹⁹ The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰ The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second. ²¹ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. ²² And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives. ²³ The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three. ²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever; ²⁶ And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites. ²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over. ²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord, ²⁹ The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures; ³⁰ They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening; ³¹ At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;

¹ Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

⁵ So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.

²⁰ And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. ²¹ Of Rehabiah; of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. ²² Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. ²³ And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. ²⁴ The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. ²⁵ The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. ²⁶ The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah.

¹ Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was: ² Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king; ³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord.

⁸ And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner.

²⁰ The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²¹ The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²² The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²³ The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁴ The seventeenth Joshbekashah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁵ The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers, twelve; ²⁶ The nineteenth Mallothi, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

¹² Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.

¹⁴ And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him.

¹⁷ On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north and the south four a day, and for the store-house two and two.

²⁰ And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things. ²¹ The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli. ²² The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord. ²³ Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites: ²⁴ And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores. ²⁵ And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son. ²⁶ Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

²⁶ Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.

¹⁰ So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever. ¹¹ Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all. ¹² Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name. ¹⁴ But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours. ¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on. ¹⁶ O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours. ¹⁷ And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you. ¹⁸ O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you; ¹⁹ And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready. ²⁰ And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.

¹¹ Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, {\I for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

³ Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.

¹⁴ And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

¹⁶ And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers. ¹⁷ So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.

³ For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

⁷ He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

²⁶ On the fourth day they all came together in the Valley of Blessing, and there they gave blessing to the Lord; for which cause that place has been named the Valley of Blessing to this day.

⁸ So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions.

¹⁷ Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.

¹⁰ And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given. ¹¹ So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.

⁵ He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.

¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;

¹⁵ And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

¹² Then the Levites took their places; Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah, among the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah;

²⁴ And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel. ²⁵ Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets. ²⁶ So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.

¹ Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. ² For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month. ³ It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem. ⁴ And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people. ⁵ So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law. ⁶ So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria. ⁷ Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see. ⁸ Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you. ⁹ For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him. ¹⁰ So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of. ¹¹ However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem. ¹² And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.

¹² And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord. ¹³ So a very great number of people came together at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month. ¹⁴ And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron. ¹⁵ Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites. ¹⁷ For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord. ¹⁸ For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone ¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place. ²⁰ And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well. ²¹ So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments. ²² And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers. ²³ And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy. ²⁴ For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.

²⁴ For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy. ²⁵ And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy. ²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. ²⁷ Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.

² Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.

⁴ In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

¹⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used. ¹¹ Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done. ¹² And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him. ¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.

¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God. ¹⁴ And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. ¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great:

¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great: ¹⁶ As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions.

¹² Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

³ In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem. ⁴ He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them. ⁵ And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean. ⁶ And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about. ⁷ He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

⁷ And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

⁹ And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.

⁴ And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.

⁵⁹ And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;

⁴ And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed. ⁵ And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.

¹⁸ And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.

¹⁶ As well as all the silver and gold which you get from the land of Babylon, together with the offering of the people and of the priests, freely given for the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem:

²⁷ Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

³⁵ And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord; ³⁶ As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God: ³⁷ And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land. ³⁸ And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house; ³⁹ For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.

¹¹ Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,

¹⁷ And Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who had to give the first note of the song of praise in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers, and Abda, the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

⁴⁴ And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

⁵ Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

¹⁰ And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field. ¹¹ Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places. ¹² Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

¹² Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses. ¹³ And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

¹³ And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.

³¹ And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.

¹⁶ Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

² But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night. ³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph. Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob. ² Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments. ³ Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day: ⁴ For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

¹⁰⁸ Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.

¹ A Song of the going up. Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night. ² Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place. ³ May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,

¹ Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord. ² You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God, ³ Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.

¹⁵ Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

¹⁶ But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

¹³ And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

¹¹ Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.

¹⁵ But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;

¹⁷ And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.

⁴ And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark; ⁵ And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ⁶ And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark: ⁷ And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

¹² And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath day: and he will go out; and the door will be shut after he has gone out. ¹³ And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it. ¹⁴ And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order. ¹⁵ And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times. ¹⁶ This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage. ¹⁷ And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs. ¹⁸ And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.

¹⁸ And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

⁷ For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

⁸ Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. ⁹ You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. ¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; ²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

³⁷ And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

⁵ In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

¹⁶ To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

⁹ For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders? ¹⁰ Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it. ¹¹ If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? ¹² If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ. ¹³ Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar? ¹⁴ Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

²⁰ But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

² How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others. ³ For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts, ⁴ Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints: ⁵ And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

¹⁶ But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

⁸ And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work: ⁹ As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever. ¹⁰ And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness; ¹¹ Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

⁶ But let him who gets teaching in the word give a part in all good things to his teacher.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

¹⁰ But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

¹⁸ I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: ¹⁷ For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

⁹ For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁵ My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

⁴ These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.