Ezra 3:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ »Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me. ¹⁵ »In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering. ¹⁶ »Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards. ¹⁷ »All your males should appear before Jehovah God three times a year.

²⁹ »The following regulations are to be observed for a long lasting time to come. On the tenth day of the seventh month the Israelites and the foreigners living among them must fast and must not do any work.

²⁴ »Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound.

²⁷ »The tenth day of this seventh month is a special day for the payment for sins. There will be a holy assembly. Humble yourselves, and bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. ²⁸ »Do not do any work that day. It is a special day for the payment for sins. It is a time when you pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah your God. ²⁹ »Those who do not humble themselves on that day will be excluded from the people. ³⁰ »I will destroy those who do any work on that day. ³¹ »Do not do any work! It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. ³² »It is a day of worship (sabbath), a day when you do not work. Humble yourselves starting on the evening of the ninth day of the month. From that evening to the next, observe the day of worship.« ³³ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ³⁴ Inform the Israelites: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to Jehovah. It will last seven days. ³⁵ »‘There will be a holy assemble on the first day. Do not do any regular work. ³⁶ »‘Bring a sacrifice by fire to Jehovah for seven consecutive days. On the eighth day there will be a holy assembly. Bring Jehovah a sacrifice by fire. This is the last festival of the year. Do not do any regular work. ³⁷ »‘These are Jehovah’s appointed festivals. Announce them as holy assemblies for bringing sacrifices by fire to Jehovah. Bring burnt offerings, grain offerings, other sacrifices, and wine offerings-each one on its special day. ³⁸ »‘This is in addition to Jehovah’s days of worship, your gifts, all your vows, and your freewill offerings to Jehovah. ³⁹ »‘Celebrate Jehovah’s festival for seven days. This should begin on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; at the time you gather what the land produces. The first and the eighth days will be worship festivals. ⁴⁰ »‘Take the best fruits, palm branches, the branches of leafy trees and poplars on the first day, and celebrate in the presence of Jehovah your God for seven days. ⁴¹ »‘It is Jehovah’s festival. Celebrate it for seven days each year. This is a long lasting law for generations to come. Celebrate this festival in the seventh month. ⁴² »‘Live in booths for seven days. Everyone born in Israel must live in booths. ⁴³ »‘This is how generations to come may learn how I made the people of Israel live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God!’« ⁴⁴ Moses told the Israelites about Jehovah’s appointed festivals.

¹ »‘Gather for worship on the first day of the seventh month. Do not work. Trumpets will be blown on that day. ² »‘Present a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ³ »‘Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: six pounds of flour with the bull, four pounds with the ram, ⁴ and two pounds with each lamb. ⁵ »‘Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people. ⁶ »‘Offer these in addition to the monthly burnt offering with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offerings with their proper grain offerings and wine offerings. It is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah. ⁷ »‘Call a holy assembly on the tenth day of the seventh month. Humble yourselves do no work. ⁸ »‘As a burnt offering, a soothing aroma, bring one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects. ⁹ »‘Bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring twenty-four cups for each bull, sixteen cups for each ram, ¹⁰ and eight cups for each of the seven lambs. ¹¹ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the other offering for sin to make peace with Jehovah and the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ¹² »‘Call a holy assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. You must not do any regular work. Instead, celebrate a festival to Jehovah for seven days. ¹³ »‘As a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah, bring thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects. ¹⁴ »‘Along with them bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring twenty-four cups for each of the thirteen bulls, sixteen cups for each of the two rams, ¹⁵ and eight cups for each of the fourteen one-year-old lambs. ¹⁶ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ¹⁷ »‘On the second day offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. ¹⁸ »‘Offer grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ¹⁹ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ »‘Then on the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²¹ and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²² and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering. ²³ »‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²⁴ grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²⁵ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering. ²⁶ »‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect; ²⁷ and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance; ²⁸ and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering. ²⁹ »‘Then on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect. ³⁰ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for each of the bulls, rams, and lambs. ³¹ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³² »‘On the seventh day bring seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old lambs that have no defects. ³³ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for each of the bulls, rams, and lambs. ³⁴ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³⁵ »‘On the eighth day you must hold a religious assembly. Do no daily work. ³⁶ »‘As a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah, bring one bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs that have no defects. ³⁷ »‘Along with them bring the proper amount of grain offerings and wine offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs. ³⁸ »‘Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin in addition to the daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and wine offerings. ³⁹ »‘These are the offerings you must bring to Jehovah at your festivals. They are the offerings you must bring in addition to the offerings for anything you vowed to give to Jehovah, your freewill offerings, your burnt offerings, your grain offerings, your wine offerings, and your fellowship offerings.’« ⁴⁰ Moses told the Israelites everything Jehovah had commanded him.

¹ The people of Israel came from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, as well as from the land of Gilead in the east. They were united in Jehovah’s presence at Mizpah.

⁷³ The priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns. When the seventh months arrived, the sons of Israel were then in their cities.

¹⁴ They saw that it was recorded in the law that Jehovah gave orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

⁹ »I will give the peoples a pure language. They may all call upon the name of Jehovah, to serve him (united in total agreement and purpose) shoulder to shoulder.

⁴⁶ They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.

³² The congregation that believed was of one heart and mind. No one claimed his or her own possessions for everything was common property.

¹⁰ I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together (united) in the same mind and thought.