Ezekiel 44 Cross References - YLT

¹ And he causeth me to turn back the way of the gate of the outer sanctuary that is looking eastward, and it is shut. ² And Jehovah saith unto me, `This gate is shut, it is not opened, and none doth go in by it, for Jehovah, God of Israel, hath come in by it, and it hath been shut. <sup>3</sup> The prince, who is prince, he sitteth by it to eat bread before Jehovah, by the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out.'
<sup>4</sup> And he bringeth me in the way of the north gate unto the front of the house, and I look, and lo, filled hath the honour of Jehovah the house of Jehovah, and I fall on my face. <sup>5</sup> And Jehovah saith unto me, `Son of man, set thy heart, and see with thine eyes, and with thine ears hear, all that I am speaking with thee, of all the statutes of the house of Jehovah, and of all its laws; and thou hast set thy heart to the entrance of the house, with all the outlets of the sanctuary, ⁶ and hast said unto the rebellious, unto the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you—of all your abominations, O house of Israel. ⁷ In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations, ⁸ and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set them for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you. ⁹ `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel,
<sup>10</sup> but—the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity. <sup>11</sup> And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them. <sup>12</sup> Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah—and they have borne their iniquity. <sup>13</sup> And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done, <sup>14</sup> and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it. <sup>15</sup> `And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: ¹⁶ they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.
¹⁷ And it hath come to pass, in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on; and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within. ¹⁸ Linen bonnets are on their head, and linen trousers are on their loins, they are not restrained with sweat. ¹⁹ And in their going forth unto the outer court—unto the outer court unto the people—they strip off their garments, in which they are ministering, and have placed them in the holy chambers, and have put on other garments; and they do not sanctify the people in their own garments. ²⁰ And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads. ²¹ And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court. ²² And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but—virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take. ²³ `And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern. <sup>24</sup> And concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment; with My judgments they judge it; and My law and My statutes in all My appointed places they keep; and My sabbaths they sanctify. <sup>25</sup> And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves. <sup>26</sup> `And after his cleansing, seven days they number to him. ²⁷ And in the day of his coming in unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he bringeth near his sin-offering—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. ²⁸ And it hath been to them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and a possession ye do not give to them in Israel; I am their possession. ²⁹ The present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, they do eat, and every devoted thing in Israel is theirs. ³⁰ And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every heave-offering of all, of all your heave-offerings, are the priests': and the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house. ³¹ Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.

⁹ And he maketh the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and their doors he hath overlaid with brass.

⁵ And Jehoshaphat standeth in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, at the front of the new court,

⁵ And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

⁶ And he cometh in unto the gate whose front is eastward, and he goeth up by its steps, and he measureth the threshold of the gate one reed broad, even the one threshold one reed broad,

¹⁷ And he bringeth me in unto the outer court, and lo, chambers and a pavement made for the court all round about—thirty chambers on the pavement—

¹⁴ In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they are holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which is for the people.'

¹ And he causeth me to go to the gate, the gate that is looking eastward.

⁴ And the honour of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face is eastward.

¹ `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that is looking eastward is shut the six days of work, and on the day of rest it is opened, and in the day of the new moon it is opened;

²⁸ crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;' ²⁹ for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple. ³⁰ All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

¹⁰ and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet is as the white work of the sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity;

¹ In the year of the death of king Uzziah—I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple. ² Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flieth. ³ And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.' <sup>4</sup> And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.
<sup>5</sup> And I say, `Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man—unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

² And lo, the honour of the God of Israel hath come from the way of the east, and His voice is as the noise of many waters, and the earth hath shone from His honour. ³ And according to the appearance is the appearance that I saw, as the appearance that I saw in my coming in to destroy the city, and the appearances are as the appearance that I saw at the river Chebar, and I fall on my face. ⁴ And the honour of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face is eastward.

⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;

⁹ And Moses goeth up, Aaron also, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, ¹⁰ and they see the God of Israel, and under His feet is as the white work of the sapphire, and as the substance of the heavens for purity; ¹¹ and unto those of the sons of Israel who are near He hath not put forth His hand, and they see God, and eat and drink.

⁷ and ye have eaten there before Jehovah your God, and have rejoiced in every putting forth of your hand, ye and your households, with which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee.

¹⁷ thou art not able to eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, and of thy new wine, and thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock, and any of thy vows which thou vowest, and thy free-will offerings, and heave-offering of thy hand; ¹⁸ but before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth fix on, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God in every putting forth of thy hand;

¹³ and seeth, and lo, the king is standing by his pillar in the entrance, and the heads, and the trumpets are by the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and shouting with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of song, and the teachers, to praise, and Athaliah rendeth her garments, and saith, `Conspiracy, conspiracy.'

³¹ And the king standeth on his station, and maketh the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commands, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that are written on this book.

¹⁸ And her merchandise and her gift have been holy to Jehovah, Not treasured up nor stored, For to those sitting before Jehovah is her merchandise, To eat to satiety, and for a lasting covering!

⁹ For, those gathering it do eat it, and have praised Jehovah, And those collecting it do drink it in My holy courts.'

²⁴ And I, Jehovah, I am their God, And My servant David prince in their midst, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

²⁵ And they have dwelt on the land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob, In which your fathers have dwelt, And they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, And their son's sons—unto the age, And David My servant is their prince—to the age.

⁹ and he measureth the porch of the gate eight cubits, and its posts two cubits, and the porch of the gates from within,

² and come in hath the prince the way of the porch of the gate at the outside, and he hath stood by the post of the gate, and the priests have made his burnt-offering, and his peace-offerings, and he hath bowed himself by the opening of the gate, and hath gone forth, and the gate is not shut till the evening.

⁸ `And in the coming in of the prince, the way of the porch of the gate he cometh in, and by its way he goeth out. ⁹ And in the coming in of the people of the land before Jehovah at appointed times, he who hath come in the way of the north gate to bow himself, goeth out the way of the south gate, and he who hath come in the way of the south gate, goeth out by the way of the north gate: he doth not turn back the way of the gate by which he came in, but over-against it he goeth out. ¹⁰ And the prince in their midst in their coming in cometh in, and in their going out he goeth out.

¹² and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot—is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah. ¹³ Yea, he doth build the temple of Jehovah, And he doth bear away honour, And he hath sat and ruled on His throne, And hath been a priest on His throne, And a counsel of peace is between both.

¹⁸ See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar? ¹⁹ what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? — ²⁰ no, but that the things that the nations sacrifice—they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. ²¹ Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons; ²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
²³ All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up; ²⁴ let no one seek his own—but each another's. ²⁵ Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience, ²⁶ for the Lord's is the earth, and its fulness; ²⁷ and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience; ²⁸ and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' —do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord's is the earth and its fulness: ²⁹ and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another's conscience? ³⁰ and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks? ³¹ Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God; ³² become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God; ³³ as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.

²⁰ lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

³ And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

⁴² And it cometh to pass, in the company being assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they turn towards the tent of meeting, and lo, the cloud hath covered it, and the honour of Jehovah is seen; ⁴³ and Moses cometh—Aaron also—unto the front of the tent of meeting. ⁴⁴ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ `Get you up from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' and they fall on their faces,

⁷ God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

³ And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.' ⁴ And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.

²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so is the appearance of the brightness round about.

²³ And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face.

⁴ and become high doth the honour of Jehovah above the cherub, over the threshold of the house, and the house is filled with the cloud, and the court hath been filled with the brightness of the honour of Jehovah.

¹⁸ And go forth doth the honour of Jehovah from off the threshold of the house, and standeth over the cherubs, ¹⁹ and the cherubs lift up their wings, and are lifted up from the earth before mine eyes; in their going forth, the wheels also are over-against them, and he standeth at the opening of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the honour of the God of Israel is over them from above.

²² And the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels are over-against them, and the honour of the God of Israel is over them above. ²³ And the honour of Jehovah goeth up from off the midst of the city, and standeth on the mountain, that is on the east of the city.

²⁰ As to the gate of the outer court whose front is northward, he hath measured its length and its breadth;

⁴⁰ and at the side without, at the going up to the opening of the north gate, are two tables; and at the other side that is at the porch of the gate, are two tables;

³ And according to the appearance is the appearance that I saw, as the appearance that I saw in my coming in to destroy the city, and the appearances are as the appearance that I saw at the river Chebar, and I fall on my face. ⁴ And the honour of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face is eastward. ⁵ And take me up doth the Spirit, and bringeth me in unto the inner court, and lo, the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house.

⁷ And I have shaken all the nations, And they have come to the desire of all the nations, And I have filled this house with honour, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

²¹ and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.

³² The whole thing which I am commanding you—it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

⁴⁶ and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law,

¹⁹ `Now, give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God, and rise and build the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, to the house that is built to the name of Jehovah.'

¹⁶ and after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those giving their heart to seek Jehovah, God of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, God of their father.

⁸ Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Lift up a present and come in to His courts. ⁹ Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the honour of holiness, Be afraid of His presence, all the earth.

⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

³² And I see—I—I do set my heart, I have seen—I have received instruction,

⁴ and the man speaketh unto me: `Son of man, see with thine eyes, And with thine ears hear, And set thy heart to all that I am shewing thee, For, in order to shew it thee, Thou hast been brought in hither, Declare all that thou art seeing to the house of Israel.'

¹⁰ Thou, son of man, Shew the house of Israel the house, And they are ashamed of their iniquities, And they have measured the measurement. ¹¹ And since they have been ashamed of all that they have done, The form of the house, and its measurement, And its outlets, and its inlets, and all its forms, And all its statutes, even all its forms, And all its laws cause them to know, And write it before their eyes, And they observe all its forms, And all its statutes, and have done them.

¹² And he saith unto me: Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words have been heard, and I have come because of thy words.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'

³⁶ And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

⁵ and they—whether they hear, or whether they forbear, for a rebellious house they are —have known that a prophet hath been in their midst.
⁶ `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they are a rebellious house, <sup>7</sup> And thou hast spoken My words unto them, whether they hear or whether they forbear, for they are rebellious. <sup>8</sup> `And thou, son of man, hear that which I am speaking unto thee: Thou art not rebellious like the rebellious house, open thy mouth, and eat that which I am giving unto thee.'

⁹ As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house are they.'

²⁶ and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house are they. ²⁷ And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house are they.

⁹ `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you—princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

³ for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

¹⁴ and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

⁴⁸ `And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it;

¹³ and hath laid his hand on its head, and hath slaughtered it before the tent of meeting, and sons of Aaron have sprinkled its blood on the altar round about; ¹⁴ and he hath brought near from it his offering, a fire-offering to Jehovah, the fat which is covering the inwards, and all the fat which is on the inwards, ¹⁵ and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, which is on the flanks, and the redundance above the liver, (beside the kidneys he doth turn it aside), ¹⁶ and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar—bread of a fire-offering, for sweet fragrance; all the fat is Jehovah's. ¹⁷ `A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

¹¹ for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

⁶ they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

⁸ and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy am I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

¹⁷ `Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God,

²¹ `No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) doth come nigh to bring near the fire-offerings of Jehovah; blemish is in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near.

²⁵ And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption is in them; blemish is in them; they are not pleasing for you.'

¹⁵ and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant—

⁴¹ also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies—or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, —

¹⁶ and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

⁶ `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;

¹⁶ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

²⁰ and I bring them in unto the ground which I have sworn to their fathers—flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, and been fat, and have turned unto other gods, and they have served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant.

⁵ And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

⁶ And sons of the stranger, who are joined to Jehovah, To serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, To be to Him for servants, Every keeper of the sabbath from polluting it, And those keeping hold on My covenant. ⁷ I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices Are for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, `A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.

⁴ Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

²⁶ On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner of the beard, Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations are uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart!

¹⁰ They have turned back to the iniquities of their first fathers, Who refused to hear My words, And they have gone after other gods to serve them, The house of Israel, and the house of Judah, Have made void My covenant, that I made with their fathers.

³² Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them—an affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁰ As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things—they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,

²⁶ Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

⁷ and He saith unto me: `Son of man, the place of My throne, And the place of the soles of My feet, Where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings—their high places. ⁸ In their putting their threshold with My threshold, And their door-post near My door-post, And the wall between Me and them, And they have defiled My holy name, By their abominations that they have done, And I consume them in Mine anger.

⁹ `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who is in the midst of the sons of Israel,

⁷ Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?' In your saying: `The table of Jehovah—it is despicable,'

¹² And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah—it is polluted, As to its fruit—despicable is its food.' <sup>13</sup> And ye have said, `Lo, what a weariness,' And ye have puffed at it, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have brought in plunder, And the lame and the sick, And ye have brought in the present! Do I accept it from your hand? said Jehovah. ¹⁴ And cursed is a deceiver, who hath in his drove a male, And is vowing, and is sacrificing a marred thing to the Lord, For a great king am I, said Jehovah of Hosts, And My name is revered among nations!

⁵² The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?' <sup>53</sup> Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; ⁵⁴ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day; ⁵⁵ for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; ⁵⁶ he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me; ⁵⁸ this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live—to the age.'

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye;

²⁸ crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh; ²⁹ but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

¹¹ in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ, ¹² being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with him through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.
¹³ And you—being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh—He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

⁹ not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt—because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, —

² `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and they are separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they pollute not My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me; I am Jehovah. <sup>3</sup> `Say unto them, To your generations, any man who draweth near, out of all your seed, unto the holy things which the sons of Israel do sanctify to Jehovah, and his uncleanness on him—even that person hath been cut off from before Me; I am Jehovah. ⁴ `Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue—of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him, <sup>5</sup> or a man who cometh against any teeming thing which is unclean to him, or against a man who is unclean to him, even any of his uncleanness— <sup>6</sup> the person who cometh against it—hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water, <sup>7</sup> and the sun hath gone in, and he hath been clean, and afterwards he doth eat of the holy things, for it is his food; <sup>8</sup> a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah. <sup>9</sup> `And they have kept My charge, and bear no sin for it, that they have died for it when they pollute it; I am Jehovah sanctifying them.
¹⁰ `And no stranger doth eat of the holy thing; a settler of a priest and an hireling doth not eat of the holy thing; <sup>11</sup> and when a priest buyeth a person, the purchase of his money, he doth eat of it, also one born in his house; they do eat of his bread. <sup>12</sup> `And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, —she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat; ¹³ and a priest's daughter, when she is a widow, or cast out, and hath no seed, and hath turned back unto the house of her father, as in her youth, of her father's bread she doth eat; but no stranger doth eat of it. ¹⁴ `And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given it to the priest, with the holy thing; <sup>15</sup> and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel—that which they lift up to Jehovah, <sup>16</sup> nor have caused them to bear the iniquity of the guilt-offering in their eating their holy things; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.'
<sup>17</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>18</sup> `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, who bringeth near his offering, of all his vows, or of all his willing offerings which they bring near to Jehovah for a burnt-offering; ¹⁹ at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats; ²⁰ nothing in which is blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you. ²¹ `And when a man bringeth near a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a willing-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it is perfect for a pleasing thing: no blemish is in it; <sup>22</sup> blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed—ye do not bring these near to Jehovah, and a fire-offering ye do not make of them on the altar to Jehovah. <sup>23</sup> `As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed—a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing. ²⁴ As to a bruised, or beaten, or enlarged, or cut thing—ye do not bring it near to Jehovah; even in your land ye do not do it. ²⁵ And from the hand of a son of a stranger ye do not bring near the bread of your God, of any of these, for their corruption is in them; blemish is in them; they are not pleasing for you.' ²⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁷ `When ox or lamb or goat is born, and it hath been seven days under its dam, then from the eighth day and henceforth, it is pleasing for an offering, a fire-offering to Jehovah; <sup>28</sup> but an ox or sheep—it and its young one, ye do not slaughter in one day. <sup>29</sup> `And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice, ³⁰ on that day it is eaten, ye do not leave of it till morning; I am Jehovah; ³¹ and ye have kept my commands, and have done them; I am Jehovah; ³² and ye do not pollute My holy name, and I have been hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel; I am Jehovah, sanctifying you, ³³ who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt, to become your God; I am Jehovah.'

³ `And they have kept thy charge, and the charge of all the tent; only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar they do not come near, and they die not, either they or you; ⁴ and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you; ⁵ and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

⁷ and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

²⁴ And I separate from the heads of the priests, twelve, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them of their brethren ten, ²⁵ and I weigh to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, a heave-offering of the house of our God, that the king, and his counsellors, and his heads, and all Israel—those present—lifted up; ²⁶ and I weigh to their hand, of silver, talents six hundred and fifty, and of vessels of silver a hundred talents, of gold a hundred talents, ²⁷ and basins of gold twenty, of a thousand drams, and two vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold. ²⁸ And I say unto them, `Ye are holy to Jehovah, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a willing-offering to Jehovah, God of your fathers; ²⁹ watch, and keep, till ye weigh before the heads of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the fathers of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.' ³⁰ And the priests and the Levites took the weight of the silver, and of the gold, and of the vessels, to bring to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

⁴⁵ And he speaketh unto me: `This chamber, whose front is southward, is for priests keeping charge of the house; ⁴⁶ and the chamber, whose front is northward, is for priests keeping charge of the altar: they are sons of Zadok, who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Jehovah, to serve Him.'

¹⁴ and I made them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that is done in it.

¹⁶ they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.

⁵³ who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it .'

¹³ I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,

¹ I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign—

¹⁶ And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee—to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

⁵ Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

⁷ In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

¹⁷ And ye have known that I am Jehovah your God, Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain, And Jerusalem hath been holy, And strangers do not pass over into it again.

²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem, and in Judah, Have been holy to Jehovah of Hosts, And all those sacrificing have come in, And have taken of them, and boiled in them, And there is no merchant any more in the house of Jehovah of Hosts in that day!

¹⁶ he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

³ Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;' <sup>4</sup> Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?' ⁵ Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;
⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate— ⁷ for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; ⁸ but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, ⁹ holding—according to the teaching—to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

¹³ And Cain saith unto Jehovah, `Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

⁸ and he who is eating it his iniquity doth bear, for the holy thing of Jehovah he hath polluted, and that person hath been cut off from his people.

³¹ and the man hath been acquitted from iniquity, and that woman doth bear her iniquity.'

²³ and the Levites have done the service of the tent of meeting, and they—they bear their iniquity; a statute age-during to your generations, that in the midst of the sons of Israel they have no inheritance;

⁸ And he bringeth in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defileth the high places where the priests have made perfume, from Geba unto Beer-Sheba, and hath broken down the high places of the gates that are at the opening of the gate of Joshua, head of the city, that is on a man's left hand at the gate of the city; ⁹ only, the priests of the high places come not up unto the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they have eaten unleavened things in the midst of their brethren.

⁴ and bringeth in the priests and the Levites, and gathereth them to the broad place to the east. ⁵ And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,

³⁴ and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

⁴ For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden—too heavy for me.

¹¹ Of the labour of his soul he seeth—he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

¹¹ For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁵ `And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

¹¹ For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

⁴ Her prophets unstable—men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

²² Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

⁵ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ⁶ `Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, <sup>7</sup> and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>8</sup> and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle; <sup>9</sup> and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel. <sup>10</sup> `And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.' ¹¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹² `And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine; <sup>13</sup> for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'
<sup>14</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, <sup>15</sup> `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.' ¹⁶ And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded. ¹⁷ And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families, are Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers. ²¹ Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. ²² Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred. ²³ The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward. ²⁴ And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael. ²⁵ And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, ²⁶ and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service. ²⁷ And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite. ²⁸ In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹ The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰ And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel. ³¹ And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service. ³² And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary. ³³ Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵ And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward. ³⁶ And the oversight—the charge of the sons of Merari—is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

⁹ is it little to you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the company of Israel to bring you near unto Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the company to serve them? —

⁶ `And I, lo, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel; to you a gift they are given by Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting;

¹ For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites is Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph; ² and to Meshelemiah are sons, Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, ³ Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. ⁴ And to Obed-Edom are sons, Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God hath blessed him. ⁶ And to Shemaiah his son have sons been born, who are ruling throughout the house of their father, for they are mighty of valour. ⁷ Sons of Shemaiah are Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad; his brethren are sons of valour, Elihu and Semachiah, ⁸ all these are of the sons of Obed-Edom; they, and their sons, and their brethren, men of valour with might for service, are sixty and two of Obed-Edom. ⁹ And to Meshelemiah are sons and brethren, sons of valour, eighteen; ¹⁰ and to Hosah, of the sons of Merari, are sons: Shimri the head (though he was not first-born, yet his father setteth him for head), ¹¹ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah are thirteen. ¹² According to these are the courses of the gatekeepers; to the heads of the mighty ones are charges over-against their brethren, to minister in the house of Jehovah, ¹³ and they cause to fall lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for gate and gate. ¹⁴ And the lot falleth eastward to Shelemiah; and for Zechariah his son—a counsellor with understanding—they cause to fall lots, and his lot goeth out northward: ¹⁵ to Obed-Edom southward, and to his sons, the house of the gatherings; ¹⁶ to Shuppim and to Hosah to the west, with the gate Shallecheth, in the highway, the ascent, charge over-against charge; ¹⁷ to the east the Levites are six; to the north daily four, to the south daily four, and to the gatherings two by two, ¹⁸ at Parbar, to the west, are four at the highway, two at Parbar. ¹⁹ These are the courses of the gatekeepers, of the sons of the Korhite, and of the sons of Merari.

³⁴ Only, the priests have become few, and have not been able to strip the whole of the burnt-offerings, and their brethren the Levites strengthen them till the completion of the work, and till the priests sanctify themselves, for the Levites are more upright of heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

¹⁷ for many are in the assembly who have not sanctified themselves, and the Levites are over the slaughtering of the passover-offerings for every one not clean, to sanctify him to Jehovah:

¹⁰ And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king, ¹¹ and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;

⁴⁵ And he speaketh unto me: `This chamber, whose front is southward, is for priests keeping charge of the house;

⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live—to the age! ⁴¹ If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me—I repay! ⁴² I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.

²⁹ Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded in My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people? ³⁰ `Therefore—the affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel—I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now—the affirmation of Jehovah—Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.

¹⁰ And king Ahaz goeth to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur at Damascus, and seeth the altar that is in Damascus, and king Ahaz sendeth unto Urijah the priest the likeness of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its work, ¹¹ and Urijah the priest buildeth the altar according to all that king Ahaz hath sent from Damascus; so did Urijah the priest till the coming in of king Ahaz from Damascus. ¹² And the king cometh in from Damascus, and the king seeth the altar, and the king draweth near on the altar, and offereth on it, ¹³ and perfumeth his burnt-offering, and his present, and poureth out his libation, and sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings that he hath, on the altar. ¹⁴ As to the altar of brass that is before Jehovah—he bringeth it near from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of Jehovah, and putteth it on the side of the altar, northward. ¹⁵ And king Ahaz commandeth him—Urijah the priest—saying, `On the great altar perfume the burnt-offering of the morning, and the present of the evening, and the burnt-offering of the king, and his present, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their present, and their libations; and all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice, on it thou dost sprinkle, and the altar of brass is to me to inquire by .' ¹⁶ And Urijah the priest doth according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

²⁶ And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

¹⁶ And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

³ `Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them? <sup>4</sup> `Therefore, speak with them, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every one of the house of Israel who causeth his idols to go up unto his heart, and the stumbling-block of his iniquity setteth over-against his face, and hath gone in unto the prophet—I Jehovah have given an answer to him for this, for the abundance of his idols,

⁶ In that day I did lift up My hand to them, To bring them forth from the land of Egypt, Unto a land that I spied out for them, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it is to all the lands,

¹⁵ And also, I, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, Not to bring them in to the land that I had given, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it is to all the lands,

²³ I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.

²⁸ And I bring them in unto the land, That I did lift up My hand to give to them, And they see every high hill, and every thick tree, And they sacrifice there their sacrifices, And give there the provocation of their offering, And make there their sweet fragrance, And they pour out there their libations.

¹⁰ but—the Levites who have gone far off from me, in the wandering of Israel when they went astray from Me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

¹³ And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done,

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

¹ `Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

⁷ Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.

⁸ And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts. ⁹ And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

⁵ And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven, ⁶ and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages, who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it—that time shall not be yet,

³ `And they have kept thy charge, and the charge of all the tent; only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar they do not come near, and they die not, either they or you;

⁹ only, the priests of the high places come not up unto the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they have eaten unleavened things in the midst of their brethren.

⁶¹ And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters—Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant.

²⁰ In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, To the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude.

⁷ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I—I have lifted up My hand, Do not—the nations who are with you from round about—they their own shame bear?

⁴ and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you;

²⁸ for their station is at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God, ²⁹ and for the bread of the arrangement, and for fine flour for present, and for the thin unleavened cakes, and for the work of the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all liquid measure and solid measure; ³⁰ and to stand, morning by morning, to give thanks, and to give praise to Jehovah, and so at evening; ³¹ and for all the burnt-offerings—burnt-offerings to Jehovah for sabbaths, for new moons, and for appointed seasons, by number, according to the ordinance upon them continually, before Jehovah. ³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

⁵ so that the sons of Israel do bring in their sacrifices which they are sacrificing on the face of the field, yea, they have brought them in to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and they have sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings to Jehovah with them. ⁶ `And the priest hath sprinkled the blood upon the altar of Jehovah, at the opening of the tent of meeting, and hath made perfume with the fat for sweet fragrance to Jehovah;

⁸ `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,

³⁵ and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

³⁵ and the king putteth Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his stead over the host, and Zadok the priest hath the king put in the stead of Abiathar.

¹⁸ And to the priests—the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice—all the days.'

⁴⁶ and the chamber, whose front is northward, is for priests keeping charge of the altar: they are sons of Zadok, who are drawing near of the sons of Levi unto Jehovah, to serve Him.'

¹⁹ And thou hast given unto the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok—who are near unto Me, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, to serve Me—a calf from the herd, for a sin-offering.

¹ And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him. ² And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?' <sup>3</sup> And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger. <sup>4</sup> And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: `Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.' And he saith unto him, `See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.' <sup>5</sup> He also said, `Let them set a pure diadem on his head. And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing, ⁶ and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying: ⁷ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: If in My ways thou dost walk, And if My charge thou dost keep, Then also thou dost judge My house, And also thou dost keep My courts, And I have given to thee conductors among these standing by.

³ not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money, ⁴ his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, ⁵ (and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?) ⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil; ⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.
⁸ Ministrants—in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre, ⁹ having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience, ¹⁰ and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

² and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

¹ `To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands—the golden:

⁸ `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

¹² `And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write: These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:

¹⁸ `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;

¹ And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;

⁷ `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

¹⁴ `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness—the faithful and true—the chief of the creation of God;

²² He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies.'

⁵ and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel.

⁷ and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'
⁸ And Jehovah speaketh unto Aaron: `And I, lo, I have given to thee the charge of My heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the sons of Israel—to thee I have given them for the anointing, and to thy sons, by a statute age-during.

⁸ And of Levi he said: —Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy pious one, Whom Thou hast tried in Massah, Thou dost strive with Him at the waters of Meribah; ⁹ Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep. ¹⁰ They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

²² Of the altar, the wood is three cubits in height, and its length two cubits; and its corners are to it, and its length, and its walls are of wood, and he speaketh unto me, `This is the table that is before Jehovah.'

¹² And ye are polluting it in your saying, `The table of Jehovah—it is polluted, As to its fruit—despicable is its food.'

⁶ and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

³⁹ `And thou hast embroidered the coat of linen, and hast made a mitre of linen, and a girdle thou dost make—work of an embroiderer.
<sup>40</sup> `And for the sons of Aaron thou dost make coats, and thou hast made for them girdles, yea, bonnets thou dost make for them, for honour and for beauty;

⁴³ and they have been on Aaron and on his sons, in their going in unto the tent of meeting, or in their drawing nigh unto the altar to minister in the sanctuary, and they do not bear iniquity nor have they died; a statute age-during to him, and to his seed after him.

²⁷ And they make the coats of linen, work of a weaver, for Aaron and for his sons, ²⁸ and the mitre of linen, and the beautiful bonnets of linen, and the linen trousers, of twined linen, ²⁹ and the girdle of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, work of an embroiderer, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

⁴ a holy linen coat he putteth on, and linen trousers are on his flesh, and with a linen girdle he girdeth himself, and with a linen mitre he wrappeth himself up; they are holy garments; and he hath bathed with water his flesh, and hath put them on.

⁴ And around the throne are thrones twenty and four, and upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns of gold;

⁸ and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.'

⁴⁰ `And for the sons of Aaron thou dost make coats, and thou hast made for them girdles, yea, bonnets thou dost make for them, for honour and for beauty; <sup>41</sup> and thou hast clothed Aaron thy brother with them, and his sons with him, and hast anointed them, and hast consecrated their hand, and hast sanctified them, and they have been priests to Me. <sup>42</sup> `And make thou for them linen trousers to cover the naked flesh: they are from the loins even unto the thighs; ⁴³ and they have been on Aaron and on his sons, in their going in unto the tent of meeting, or in their drawing nigh unto the altar to minister in the sanctuary, and they do not bear iniquity nor have they died; a statute age-during to him, and to his seed after him.

²⁸ and the mitre of linen, and the beautiful bonnets of linen, and the linen trousers, of twined linen,

²⁰ Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head, ⁵ and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven, ⁶ for if a woman is not covered—then let her be shorn, and if it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven—let her be covered; ⁷ for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man, ⁸ for a man is not of a woman, but a woman is of a man, ⁹ for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man; ¹⁰ because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

⁴⁰ let all things be done decently and in order.

³⁷ seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy.

²⁹ and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

¹⁰ that the priest hath put on his long robe of fine linen, and his fine linen trousers he doth put on his flesh, and hath lifted up the ashes which the fire consumeth with the burnt-offering on the altar, and hath put them near the altar; ¹¹ and he hath stripped off his garments, and hath put on other garments, and hath brought out the ashes unto the outside of the camp, unto a clean place.

²⁷ all that cometh against its flesh is holy, and when any of its blood is sprinkled on the garment, that on which it is sprinkled thou dost wash in the holy place;

¹³ And he saith unto me, `The north chambers, the south chambers, that are at the front of the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests (who are near to Jehovah) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, for the place is holy. ¹⁴ In the priests' going in, they come not out from the sanctuary unto the outer court, and there they place their garments with which they minister, for they are holy, and have put on other garments, and have drawn near unto that which is for the people.'

²⁰ And he saith unto me, `This is the place where the priests do boil the guilt-offering and the sin-offering, where they bake the present, so as not to bring it out unto the outer court, to sanctify the people.'

¹⁷ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold? ¹⁸ `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it—is debtor! ¹⁹ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave? ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

⁵ they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting; ⁶ they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy. ⁷ `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God; <sup>8</sup> and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy am I, Jehovah, sanctifying you. <sup>9</sup> `And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring—her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.
¹⁰ `And the high priest of his brethren, on whose head is poured the anointing oil, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments, his head doth not uncover, nor rend his garments, <sup>11</sup> nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself; <sup>12</sup> nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Jehovah. <sup>13</sup> `And he taketh a wife in her virginity; ¹⁴ widow, or cast out, or polluted one—a harlot—these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take for a wife, ¹⁵ and he doth not pollute his seed among his people; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying him.'
¹⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷ `Speak unto Aaron, saying, No man of thy seed to their generations in whom there is blemish doth draw near to bring near the bread of his God, <sup>18</sup> for no man in whom is blemish doth draw near—a man blind, or lame or dwarfed, or enlarged, <sup>19</sup> or a man in whom there is a breach in the foot, or a breach in the hand, <sup>20</sup> or hump-backed, or a dwarf, or with a mixture in his eye, or a scurvy person, or scabbed, or broken-testicled. <sup>21</sup> `No man in whom is blemish (of the seed of Aaron the priest) doth come nigh to bring near the fire-offerings of Jehovah; blemish is in him; the bread of his God he doth not come nigh to bring near. ²² `Bread of his God—of the most holy things, and of the holy things—he doth eat; ²³ only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish is in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I am Jehovah, sanctifying them.' ²⁴ And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel.

⁵ `All days of the vow of his separation a razor doth not pass over his head; till the fulness of the days which he doth separate to Jehovah he is holy; grown up hath the upper part of the hair of his head.

¹ `Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

¹⁴ doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man indeed have long hair, a dishonour it is to him?

⁹ `Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not—a statute age-during to your generations;

¹⁵ for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

⁸ Ministrants—in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

²³ no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

⁷ for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; ⁸ but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

⁷ `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he is holy to his God;

¹³ `And he taketh a wife in her virginity; ¹⁴ widow, or cast out, or polluted one—a harlot—these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take for a wife,

¹ `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, <sup>2</sup> and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's, <sup>3</sup> and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife: <sup>4</sup> `Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee—an inheritance.

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

⁴ his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, ⁵ (and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

¹¹ Women—in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things. ¹² Ministrants—let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—

¹⁰ so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure; ¹¹ and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

¹⁰ They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. ¹⁰ Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. ¹¹ Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

¹¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Ask, I pray thee, the priests of the law, saying: <sup>12</sup> Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food—is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, `No.' ¹³ And Haggai saith, `If the unclean of body doth come against any of these, is it unclean?' And the priests answer and say, `It is unclean.'

⁶ The law of truth hath been in his mouth, And perverseness hath not been found in his lips, In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, And many he brought back from iniquity. ⁷ For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is .

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, ²⁵ in meekness instructing those opposing—if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

⁹ holding—according to the teaching—to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict; ¹⁰ for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially they of the circumcision— ¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, are these: they are My appointed seasons: <sup>3</sup> six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.
<sup>4</sup> `These are appointed seasons of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons: ⁵ in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Jehovah; ⁶ and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat; ⁷ on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work; ⁸ and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.' ⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest, <sup>11</sup> then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it. <sup>12</sup> `And ye have prepared in the day of your waving the sheaf a lamb, a perfect one, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah, ¹³ and its present two tenth deals of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink-offering, wine, a fourth of the hin. ¹⁴ `And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God—a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.
<sup>15</sup> `And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; ¹⁶ unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah; ¹⁷ out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two loaves, of two tenth deals of flour they are, with yeast they are baken, first-fruits to Jehovah. ¹⁸ `And ye have brought near, besides the bread, seven lambs, perfect ones, sons of a year, and one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt-offering to Jehovah, with their present and their libations, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah. <sup>19</sup> `And ye have prepared one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace-offerings, ²⁰ and the priest hath waved them, besides the bread of the first-fruits —a wave-offering before Jehovah, besides the two lambs; they are holy to Jehovah for the priest; ²¹ and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work—a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations. ²² `And in your reaping the harvest of your land thou dost not complete the corner of thy field in thy reaping, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I Jehovah am your God.'
<sup>23</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>24</sup> `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye have a sabbath, a memorial of shouting, a holy convocation; ²⁵ ye do no servile work, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah.' ²⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁷ `Only—on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; <sup>28</sup> and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God. <sup>29</sup> `For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people; ³⁰ and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people; ³¹ ye do no work—a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings. ³² It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'
³³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ³⁴ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the fifteenth day of this seventh month is a feast of booths seven days to Jehovah; <sup>35</sup> on the first day is a holy convocation, ye do no servile work, <sup>36</sup> seven days ye bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, on the eighth day ye have a holy convocation, and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; it is a restraint, ye do no servile work. <sup>37</sup> `These are appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim holy convocations, to bring near a fire-offering to Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a present, a sacrifice, and libations, a thing of a day in its day, ³⁸ apart from the sabbaths of Jehovah, and apart from your gifts, and apart from all your vows, and apart from all your willing-offerings, which ye give to Jehovah. ³⁹ `Only—in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, in your gathering the increase of the land, ye do keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day is a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath; <sup>40</sup> and ye have taken to yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palms, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of a brook, and have rejoiced before Jehovah your God seven days. <sup>41</sup> `And ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah, seven days in a year—a statute age-during to your generations; in the seventh month ye keep it a feast. ⁴² `In booths ye dwell seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in booths, ⁴³ so that your generations do know that in booths I caused the sons of Israel to dwell; in my bringing them out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, am your God.' ⁴⁴ And Moses speaketh concerning the appointed seasons of Jehovah unto the sons of Israel.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ² `Command the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, My offering, My bread for My fire-offerings, My sweet fragrance, ye take heed to bring near to Me in its appointed season. <sup>3</sup> `And thou hast said to them, This is the fire-offering which ye bring near to Jehovah: two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, daily, a continual burnt-offering; ⁴ the one lamb thou preparest in the morning, and the second lamb thou preparest between the evenings; ⁵ and a tenth of the ephah of flour for a present, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth of the hin; ⁶ a continual burnt-offering, which was made in mount Sinai, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah; ⁷ and its libation, a fourth of the hin for the one lamb; in the sanctuary cause thou a libation of strong drink to be poured out to Jehovah. ⁸ `And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; as the present of the morning, and as its libation thou preparest—a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance to Jehovah.
<sup>9</sup> `And on the sabbath-day, two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, and two-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, and its libation; ¹⁰ the burnt-offering of the sabbath in its sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering and its libation. ¹¹ `And in the beginnings of your months ye bring near a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones; <sup>12</sup> and three-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one bullock, and two-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one ram; <sup>13</sup> and a several tenth deal of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one lamb; a burnt-offering, a sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah; <sup>14</sup> and their libations are a half of the hin to a bullock, and a third of the hin to a ram, and a fourth of the hin to a lamb, of wine; this is the burnt-offering of every month for the months of the year; <sup>15</sup> and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to Jehovah; besides the continual burnt-offering it is prepared, and its libation.
<sup>16</sup> `And in the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, is the passover to Jehovah; ¹⁷ and in the fifteenth day of this month is a festival, seven days unleavened food is eaten; ¹⁸ in the first day is an holy convocation, ye do no servile work, ¹⁹ and ye have brought near a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, and one ram, and seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones they are for you; ²⁰ and their present, flour mixed with oil, three-tenth deals for a bullock, and two-tenth deals for a ram ye do prepare; ²¹ a several tenth deal thou preparest for the one lamb, for the seven lambs, ²² and one goat, a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. ²³ `Apart from the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for the continual burnt-offering, ye prepare these; <sup>24</sup> according to these ye prepare daily, seven days, bread of a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance, to Jehovah; besides the continual burnt-offering it is prepared, and its libation; <sup>25</sup> and on the seventh day a holy convocation ye have, ye do no servile work. <sup>26</sup> `And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work; ²⁷ and ye have brought near a burnt-offering for sweet fragrance to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, ²⁸ and their present, flour mixed with oil, three-tenth deals to the one bullock, two-tenth deals to the one ram, ²⁹ a several tenth deal to the one lamb, for the seven lambs;

⁸ `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within thy gates—then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, <sup>9</sup> and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment, <sup>10</sup> and thou hast done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to thee (they of that place which Jehovah doth choose; and thou hast observed to do according to all that they direct thee. <sup>11</sup> `According to the tenor of the law which they direct thee, and according to the judgment which they say to thee thou dost do; thou dost not turn aside from the word which they declare to thee, right or left. ¹² And the man who acteth with presumption, so as not to hearken unto the priest (who is standing to serve there Jehovah thy God), or unto the judge, even that man hath died, and thou hast put away the evil thing from Israel, ¹³ and all the people do hear and fear, and do not presume any more.

⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah are twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand,

⁸ And also in Jerusalem hath Jehoshaphat appointed of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the heads of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah, and for strife; and they turn back to Jerusalem, ⁹ and he layeth a charge upon them, saying, `Thus do ye do in the fear of Jehovah, in faithfulness, and with a perfect heart, ¹⁰ and any strife that cometh in unto you of your brethren who are dwelling in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and command, statutes, and judgments, then ye have warned them and they become not guilty before Jehovah, and wrath hath not been on you and on your brethren; thus do ye do, and ye are not guilty.

⁶³ and the Tirshatha saith to them, that they eat not of the most holy things till the standing up of a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

¹ And all the people are gathered as one man unto the broad place that is before the water-gate, and they say to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, that Jehovah commanded Israel. ² And Ezra the priest bringeth the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month, ³ and he readeth in it before the broad place that is before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people are unto the book of the law. ⁴ And Ezra the scribe standeth on a tower of wood that they made for the purpose, and Mattithiah standeth near him, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right; and on his left Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam. ⁵ And Ezra openeth the book before the eyes of all the people—for above all the people he hath been—and at his opening it all the people have stood up, ⁶ and Ezra blesseth Jehovah, the great God, and all the people answer, `Amen, Amen,' with lifting up of their hands, and they bow and do obeisance to Jehovah—faces to the earth. <sup>7</sup> And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, are on their station, <sup>8</sup> and they read in the book, in the law of God, explaining—so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation.
<sup>9</sup> And Nehemiah—he is the Tirshatha—saith (and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites who are instructing the people) to all the people, `To-day is holy to Jehovah your God, do not mourn, nor weep:' for all the people are weeping at their hearing the words of the law. ¹⁰ And he saith to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day is holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.' <sup>11</sup> And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, `Be silent, for to-day is holy, and be not grieved.' ¹² And all the people go to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great joy, because they have understood concerning the words that they made known to them.
¹³ And on the second day have been gathered heads of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to act wisely concerning the words of the law. ¹⁴ And they find written in the law that Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, that the sons of Israel dwell in booths in the feast, in the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they proclaim and cause to pass over all their cities, (and in Jerusalem,) saying, `Go ye out to the mount, and bring leaves of the olive, and leaves of the oil tree, and leaves of the myrtle, and leaves of the palms, and leaves of thick trees, to make booths as it is written.' ¹⁶ And the people go out, and bring in, and make for themselves booths, each on his roof, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water-gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And they make—all the assembly of the captives of the captivity—booths, and they sit in booths; for the sons of Israel had not done, from the days of Jeshua son of Nun, so unto that day, and there is very great joy. ¹⁸ And he readeth in the book of the law of God day by day, from the first day till the last day, and they make a feast seven days, and on the eighth day a restraint, according to the ordinance.

¹³ If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word. ¹⁴ Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!

¹⁵ and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God—a pillar and foundation of the truth,

¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Speak unto the priests, sons of Aaron, and thou hast said unto them, For any person a priest is not defiled among his people, <sup>2</sup> except for his relation who is near unto him—for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother. <sup>3</sup> and for his sister, the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled. <sup>4</sup> `A master priest doth not defile himself among his people—to pollute himself; ⁵ they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting; ⁶ they are holy to their God, and they pollute not the name of their God, for the fire-offerings of Jehovah, bread of their God, they are bringing near, and have been holy.

⁴ `Any man of the seed of Aaron, and is leprous or hath an issue—of the holy things he doth not eat till that he is clean; and he who is coming against any uncleanness of a person, or a man whose seed of copulation goeth out from him,

²¹ And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;' <sup>22</sup> and Jesus said to him, `Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

⁵⁹ And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;' ⁶⁰ and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

¹⁶ So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, ¹⁴ for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him, ¹⁵ for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living—who do remain over to the presence of the Lord—may not precede those asleep,

¹⁰ and on the eighth day he bringeth in two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the priest, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, ¹¹ and the priest hath prepared one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering, and hath made atonement for him, because of that which he hath sinned by the body, and he hath hallowed his head on that day; ¹² and he hath separated to Jehovah the days of his separation, and he hath brought in a lamb, a son of a year, for a guilt-offering, and the former days are fallen, for his separation hath been defiled. ¹³ `And this is the law of the Nazarite; in the day of the fulness of the days of his separation doth one bring him in unto the opening of the tent of meeting, <sup>14</sup> and he hath brought near his offering to Jehovah, one he-lamb, a son of a year, a perfect one, for a burnt-offering, and one she-lamb, a daughter of a year, a perfect one, for a sin-offering, and one ram, a perfect one, for peace-offerings, <sup>15</sup> and a basket of unleavened things of flour, cakes mixed with oil, and thin cakes of unleavened things anointed with oil, and their present, and their libations. <sup>16</sup> `And the priest hath brought them near before Jehovah, and hath made his sin-offering and his burnt-offering; ¹⁷ and the ram he maketh a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, besides the basket of unleavened things; and the priest hath made its present and its libation. ¹⁸ `And the Nazarite hath shaved (at the opening of the tent of meeting) the head of his separation, and hath taken the hair of the head of his separation, and hath put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings. <sup>19</sup> `And the priest hath taken the boiled shoulder from the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one thin unleavened cake, and hath put on the palms of the Nazarite after his shaving his separation; ²⁰ and the priest hath waved them, a wave-offering before Jehovah; it is holy to the priest, besides the breast of the wave-offering, and besides the leg of the heave-offering; and afterwards doth the Nazarite drink wine. ²¹ `This is the law of the Nazarite, who voweth his offering to Jehovah for his separation, apart from that which his hand attaineth; according to his vow which he voweth so he doth by the law of his separation.'

¹¹ `He who is coming against the dead body of any man—is unclean seven days; <sup>12</sup> he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean. <sup>13</sup> Any one who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dieth, and cleanseth not himself—the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him. <sup>14</sup> `This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one who is coming in unto the tent, and all that is in the tent, is unclean seven days;

¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

³ `If the priest who is anointed doth sin according to the guilt of the people, then he hath brought near for his sin which he hath sinned a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, to Jehovah, for a sin-offering, <sup>4</sup> and he hath brought in the bullock unto the opening of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, and hath laid his hand on the head of the bullock, and hath slaughtered the bullock before Jehovah. <sup>5</sup> `And the priest who is anointed hath taken of the blood of the bullock, and hath brought it in unto the tent of meeting, ⁶ and the priest hath dipped his finger in the blood, and sprinkled of the blood seven times before Jehovah, at the front of the vail of the sanctuary; ⁷ and the priest hath put of the blood on the horns of the altar of spice-perfume before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting, and all the blood of the bullock he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which is at the opening of the tent of meeting. ⁸ `And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he doth lift up from it, the fat which is covering over the inwards, and all the fat which is on the inwards, <sup>9</sup> and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the flanks, and the redundance above the liver, (beside the kidneys he doth turn it aside), <sup>10</sup> as it is lifted up from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace-offerings; and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering. <sup>11</sup> `And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, besides its head, and besides its legs, and its inwards, and its dung— ¹² he hath even brought out the whole bullock unto the outside of the camp, unto a clean place, unto the place of the pouring out of the ashes, and he hath burnt it on the wood with fire; beside the place of the pouring out of the ashes it is burnt.
¹³ `And if the whole company of Israel err ignorantly, and the thing hath been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done something against one of all the commands of Jehovah concerning things which are not to be done, and have been guilty; <sup>14</sup> when the sin which they have sinned concerning it hath been known, then have the assembly brought near a bullock, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering, and they have brought it in before the tent of meeting; <sup>15</sup> and the elders of the company have laid their hands on the head of the bullock, before Jehovah, and one hath slaughtered the bullock before Jehovah. <sup>16</sup> `And the priest who is anointed hath brought in of the blood of the bullock unto the tent of meeting, ¹⁷ and the priest hath dipped his finger in the blood, and hath sprinkled seven times before Jehovah at the front of the vail, ¹⁸ and some of the blood he doth put on the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, which is at the opening of the tent of meeting; ¹⁹ and all its fat he doth lift up from it, and hath made perfume on the altar. ²⁰ `And he hath done to the bullock as he hath done to the bullock of the sin-offering, so he doth to it; and the priest hath made atonement for them, and it hath been forgiven them; <sup>21</sup> and he hath brought out the bullock unto the outside of the camp, and hath burned it as he hath burned the first bullock; it is a sin-offering of the assembly.
<sup>22</sup> `When a prince doth sin, and hath done something against one of all the commands of Jehovah his God regarding things which are not to be done, through ignorance, and hath been guilty— ²³ or his sin wherein he hath sinned hath been made known unto him, then he hath brought in his offering, a kid of the goats, a male, a perfect one, ²⁴ and he hath laid his hand on the head of the goat, and hath slaughtered it in the place where he doth slaughter the burnt-offering before Jehovah; it is a sin-offering. ²⁵ `And the priest hath taken of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and hath put on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and its blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar of the burnt-offering, <sup>26</sup> and with all its fat he doth make perfume on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of the peace-offerings; and the priest hath made atonement for him because of his sin, and it hath been forgiven him.
<sup>27</sup> `And if any person of the people of the land sin through ignorance, by his doing something against one of the commands of Jehovah regarding things which are not to be done, and hath been guilty— ²⁸ or his sin which he hath sinned hath been made known unto him, then he hath brought in his offering, a kid of the goats, a perfect one, a female, for his sin which he hath sinned, ²⁹ and he hath laid his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and hath slaughtered the sin-offering in the place of the burnt-offering. ³⁰ `And the priest hath taken of its blood with his finger, and hath put on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar, <sup>31</sup> and all its fat he doth turn aside, as the fat hath been turned aside from off the sacrifice of the peace-offerings, and the priest hath made perfume on the altar, for sweet fragrance to Jehovah; and the priest hath made atonement for him, and it hath been forgiven him. <sup>32</sup> `And if he bring in a sheep for his offering, for a sin-offering, a female, a perfect one, he doth bring in, ³³ and he hath laid his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and hath slaughtered it for a sin-offering in the place where he slaughtereth the burnt-offering. ³⁴ `And the priest hath taken of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and hath put on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its blood he poureth out at the foundation of the altar, ³⁵ and all its fat he turneth aside, as the fat of the sheep is turned aside from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings, and the priest hath made them a perfume on the altar, according to the fire-offerings of Jehovah, and the priest hath made atonement for him, for his sin which he hath sinned, and it hath been forgiven him.

¹⁴ And he bringeth nigh the bullock of the sin-offering, and Aaron layeth—his sons also—their hands on the head of the bullock of the sin-offering, ¹⁵ and one slaughtereth, and Moses taketh the blood, and putteth on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and cleanseth the altar, and the blood he hath poured out at the foundation of the altar, and sanctifieth it, to make atonement upon it. ¹⁶ And he taketh all the fat that is on the inwards, and the redundance above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses maketh Perfume on the altar, ¹⁷ and the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he hath burnt with fire, at the outside of the camp, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ¹⁸ And he bringeth near the ram of the burnt-offering, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram, ¹⁹ and one slaughtereth, and Moses sprinkleth the blood on the altar round about; ²⁰ and the ram he hath cut into its pieces, and Moses maketh perfume with the head, and the pieces, and the fat, ²¹ and the inwards and the legs he hath washed with water, and Moses maketh perfume with the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt-offering, for sweet fragrance; it is a fire-offering to Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ²² And he bringeth near the second ram, a ram of the consecrations, and Aaron and his sons lay their hands on the head of the ram, ²³ and one slaughtereth, and Moses taketh of its blood, and putteth on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot; ²⁴ and he bringeth near the sons of Aaron, and Moses putteth of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot. And Moses sprinkleth the blood on the altar round about, ²⁵ and taketh the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that is on the inwards, and the redundance above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right leg; ²⁶ and out of the basket of unleavened things, which is before Jehovah, he hath taken one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one thin cake, and putteth them on the fat, and on the right leg; ²⁷ and putteth the whole on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons, and waveth them—a wave-offering before Jehovah. ²⁸ And Moses taketh them from off their hands, and maketh perfume on the altar, on the burnt-offering, they are consecrations for sweet fragrance; it is a fire-offering to Jehovah; ²⁹ and Moses taketh the breast, and waveth it—a wave-offering before Jehovah; of the ram of the consecrations it hath been to Moses for a portion, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ³⁰ And Moses taketh of the anointing oil, and of the blood which is on the altar, and sprinkleth on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him, and he sanctifieth Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him.
³¹ And Moses saith unto Aaron, and unto his sons, `Boil ye the flesh at the opening of the tent of meeting, and there ye do eat it and the bread which is in the basket of the consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons do eat it. <sup>32</sup> `And the remnant of the flesh and of the bread with fire ye burn; ³³ and from the opening of the tent of meeting ye go not out seven days, till the day of the fulness, the days of your consecration—for seven days he doth consecrate your hand; ³⁴ as he hath done on this day, Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you; ³⁵ and at the opening of the tent of meeting ye abide, by day and by night seven days, and ye have kept the charge of Jehovah, and die not, for so I have been commanded.' ³⁶ And Aaron doth—his sons also—all the things which Jehovah hath commanded by the hand of Moses.

⁹ `And when the dead dieth beside him in an instant, suddenly, and he hath defiled the head of his separation, then he hath shaved his head in the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he doth shave it, ¹⁰ and on the eighth day he bringeth in two turtle-doves or two young pigeons unto the priest, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, ¹¹ and the priest hath prepared one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering, and hath made atonement for him, because of that which he hath sinned by the body, and he hath hallowed his head on that day;

¹⁷ And it hath come to pass, in their going in unto the gates of the inner court, linen garments they put on; and no wool cometh up on them in their ministering in the gates of the inner court and within.

²⁶ For such a chief priest did become us—kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, ²⁷ who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself; ²⁸ for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son—to the age having been perfected.

²⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Aaron, `In their land thou dost not inherit, and a portion thou hast not in their midst: I am thy portion, and thine inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel;

⁹ therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah Himself is his inheritance, as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him.

¹ `There is not to the priests the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—a portion and inheritance with Israel; fire-offerings of Jehovah, even His inheritance, they eat, ² and he hath no inheritance in the midst of his brethren; Jehovah Himself is his inheritance, as He hath spoken to him.

¹⁴ Only, to the tribe of Levi he hath not given an inheritance; fire-offerings of Jehovah, God of Israel, is its inheritance, as He hath spoken to it.

³³ and to the tribe of Levi Moses gave not an inheritance; Jehovah, God of Israel, Himself is their inheritance, as He hath spoken to them.

⁴ The holy portion of the land it is; for priests, ministrants of the sanctuary, it is, who are drawing near to serve Jehovah; and it hath been to them a place for houses, and a holy place for a sanctuary.

⁹ The heave-offering that ye lift up to Jehovah is five and twenty thousand long, and broad ten thousand. ¹⁰ And of these is the holy heave-offering for the priests, northward five and twenty thousand, and westward in breadth ten thousand, and eastward in breadth ten thousand, and southward in length five and twenty thousand: and the sanctuary of Jehovah hath been in its midst. ¹¹ For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

² feed the flock of God that is among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, ³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock, ⁴ and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

³ and the remnant of the present is for Aaron and for his sons, most holy, of the fire-offerings of Jehovah.

¹⁰ and the remnant of the present is for Aaron and for his sons, most holy, of the fire-offerings of Jehovah.

¹⁴ `And this is a law of the present: sons of Aaron have brought it near before Jehovah unto the front of the altar, <sup>15</sup> and one hath lifted up of it with his hand from the flour of the present, and from its oil, and all the frankincense which is on the present, and hath made perfume on the altar, sweet fragrance—its memorial to Jehovah. <sup>16</sup> `And the remnant of it do Aaron and his sons eat; with unleavened things it is eaten, in the holy place, in the court of the tent of meeting they do eat it. ¹⁷ It is not baken with any thing fermented, their portion I have given it, out of My fire-offerings; it is most holy, like the sin-offering, and like the guilt-offering. ¹⁸ Every male among the sons of Aaron doth eat it—a statute age-during to your generations, out of the fire-offerings of Jehovah: all that cometh against them is holy.'

²⁶ `The priest who is making atonement with it doth eat it, in the holy place it is eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting;

²⁹ `Every male among the priests doth eat it—it is most holy;

⁶ `Every male among the priests doth eat it; in the holy place it is eaten—it is most holy;

²¹ and the field hath been, in its going out in the jubilee, holy to Jehovah as a field which is devoted; to the priest is its possession.

²⁸ `Only, no devoted thing which a man devoteth to Jehovah, of all that he hath, of man, and beast, and of the field of his possession, is sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to Jehovah.

⁹ This is thine of the most holy things, from the fire: all their offering, to all their present, and to all their sin-offering, and to all their guilt-offering, which they give back to Me, is most holy to thee, and to thy sons; ¹⁰ in the holy of holies thou dost eat it; every male doth eat it; holy it is to thee. ¹¹ `And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, to all the wave-offerings of the sons of Israel, to thee I have given them, and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute age-during; every clean one in thy house doth eat it;

¹⁴ every devoted thing in Israel is thine,

¹³ Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple—of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar—with the altar are partakers? ¹⁴ so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

¹⁰ we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,

² `Sanctify to Me every first-born, opening any womb among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; it is Mine.'

¹² that thou hast caused every one opening a womb to pass over to Jehovah, and every firstling—the increase of beasts which thou hast: the males are Jehovah's.

²⁹ `Thy fulness and thy liquids thou dost not delay; the first-born of thy sons thou dost give to Me;

¹⁹ the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

¹³ for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'

¹⁹ then it hath been, in your eating of the bread of the land, ye heave up a heave-offering to Jehovah; ²⁰ the beginning of your dough a cake ye heave up—a heave-offering; as the heave-offering of a threshing-floor, so ye do heave it. ²¹ Of the beginning of your dough ye do give to Jehovah a heave-offering—to your generations.

¹² all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat—their first-fruits which they give to Jehovah—to thee I have given them. ¹³ `The first-fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring in to Jehovah, are thine; every clean one in thy house doth eat it; <sup>14</sup> every devoted thing in Israel is thine, <sup>15</sup> every one opening a womb of all flesh which they bring near to Jehovah, among man and among beast, is thine; only, thou dost certainly ransom the first-born of man, and the firstling of the unclean beast thou dost ransom. <sup>16</sup> `And their ransomed ones from a son of a month, thou dost ransom with thy valuation, of silver, five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs it is . ¹⁷ `Only, the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou dost not ransom, holy they are : their blood thou dost sprinkle on the altar, and of their fat thou makest perfume, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah, ¹⁸ and their flesh is thine, as the breast of the wave-offering, and as the right leg, it is thine;

²⁷ and your heave-offering hath been reckoned to you as corn from the threshing-floor, and as fulness from the wine-vat; ²⁸ so ye do lift up—ye also—the heave-offering of Jehovah from all your tithes which ye receive from the sons of Israel; and ye have given from it the heave-offering of Jehovah to Aaron the priest; ²⁹ out of all your gifts ye do lift up the whole heave-offering of Jehovah; out of all its fat, —its hallowed part—out of it. ³⁰ `And thou hast said unto them, In your lifting up its fat out of it, then it hath been reckoned to the Levites, as increase of a threshing-floor, and as increase of a wine-vat;

⁴ the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;

¹⁰ `And now, lo, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which thou hast given to me, O Jehovah; —and thou hast placed it before Jehovah thy God, and bowed thyself before Jehovah thy God, <sup>11</sup> and rejoiced in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in thy midst.
<sup>12</sup> `When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied, ¹³ and thou hast said before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Thy command which Thou hast commanded me; I have not passed over from Thy commands, nor have I forgotten. ¹⁴ I have not eaten in mine affliction of it, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me; ¹⁵ look from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the ground which Thou hast given to us, as Thou hast sworn to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ And he saith to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give the portion of the priests, and of the Levites, so that they are strengthened in the law of Jehovah; ⁵ and at the spreading forth of the thing have the sons of Israel multiplied the first-fruit of corn, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field, and the tithe of the whole in abundance they have brought in. ⁶ And the sons of Israel and Judah, those dwelling in cities of Judah, they also a tithe of herd and flock, and a tithe of the holy things that are sanctified to Jehovah their God, have brought in, and they give—heaps, heaps;

¹⁰ and Azariah the head priest, of the house of Zadok, speaketh unto him, and saith, `From the beginning of the bringing of the heave-offering to the house of Jehovah, there is to eat, and to be satisfied, and to leave abundantly, for Jehovah hath blessed His people, and that left is this store.'

³⁵ and to bring in the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of Jehovah, ³⁶ and the firstlings of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and our flocks, to bring in to the house of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the house of our God. ³⁷ And the beginning of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of oil, we bring in to the priests, unto the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they—the Levites—have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage;

⁹ Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase; ¹⁰ And filled are thy barns with plenty, And with new wine thy presses break forth.

¹⁰ Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space. ¹¹ And I have pushed for you against the consumer, And He doth not destroy to you the fruit of the ground, Nor miscarry to you doth the vine in the field, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁸ having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

³¹ `And ye are holy men to Me, and flesh torn in the field ye do not eat, to a dog ye do cast it.

¹⁵ `And any person who eateth a carcase or torn thing, among natives or among sojourners—hath both washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been unclean until the evening—then he hath been clean;

⁸ a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah.

²¹ `Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who is within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell it to a stranger; for a holy people thou art to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

¹⁴ And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth hath abominable flesh.'

²⁰ for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.

¹³ wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh—to the age—that my brother I may not cause to stumble.