Numbers 4 Cross References - BBE

¹ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ² Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ⁴ And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ¹⁸ Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites; ¹⁹ But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up; ²⁰ But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death. ²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ²² Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ²³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up. ²⁵ They are to take up the curtains of the House, and the Tent of meeting with its cover and the leather cover over it, and the hangings for the door of the Tent of meeting; ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do. ²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders. ²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ³⁴ So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁵ Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting; ³⁶ And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ³⁸ And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families, ³⁹ All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴² And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred. ⁴⁵ This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴⁶ And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴⁷ Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, ⁴⁸ Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹ At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

⁴⁶ Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

²³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

³⁵ Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;

²⁴ This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting; ²⁵ But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more; ²⁶ But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

⁹ Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;

⁴ Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the king's son. ⁵ And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house, ⁶ (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ⁷ And the two divisions of you, who go out on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the house of the Lord, ⁸ Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in. ⁹ And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest. ¹⁰ And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord. ¹¹ Then the armed men took up their positions, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, round about the altar and the house. ¹² Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king.

⁴⁸ And their brothers the Levites were responsible for all the work of the Tent of the house of God.

³ And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority; ⁵ Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever; ²⁶ And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites. ²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over. ²⁸ Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord, ²⁹ The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures; ³⁰ They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening; ³¹ At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord; ³² And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.

¹² And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things; ¹³ And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;

¹ In the seventh year, Jehoiada made himself strong, and made an agreement with the captains of hundreds, Azariah, the son of Jeroham, Ishmael, the son of Jehohanan, Azariah, the son of Obed, Maaseiah, the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat, the son of Zichri. ² And they went through Judah, getting together the Levites and the heads of families in Israel from all the towns of Judah, and they came to Jerusalem. ³ And all the people made an agreement with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Truly, the king's son will be king, as the Lord has said about the sons of David. ⁴ This is what you are to do: let a third of you, of the priests and Levites, who come in on the Sabbath, keep the doors; ⁵ And a third are to be stationed at the king's house; and a third at the doorway of the horses: while all the people are waiting in the open spaces round the house of the Lord. ⁶ But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord. ⁷ And the Levites are to make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and any man who comes into the house is to be put to death; you are to keep with the king when he comes in and when he goes out. ⁸ So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions. ⁹ Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's and which were kept in the house of God. ¹⁰ And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king. ¹¹ Then they made the king's son come out, and they put the crown on his head and gave him the arm-bands and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons put the holy oil on him and said, Long life to the king.

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.

²³ And Jesus at this time was about thirty years old, being the son as it seemed of Joseph, the son of Heli,

³ For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh ⁴ For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places;

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. ¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. ¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. ¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. ¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; ¹⁶ And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. ¹⁷ And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

¹⁸ This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,

¹ This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.

⁶ Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

¹⁹ But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;

²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

³⁴ It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.

¹⁰ And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high. ¹¹ It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it ¹² And make four rings of gold for it, to be fixed on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two on the other. ¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out. ¹⁶ Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you. ¹⁷ And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ¹⁸ And at the two ends of the cover you are to make two winged ones of hammered gold, ¹⁹ One at one end and one at the other; the winged ones are to be part of the cover. ²⁰ And their wings are to be outstretched over the cover, and the winged ones are to be opposite one another, facing the cover. ²¹ And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you. ²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

³¹ And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman: ³² Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases. ³³ And you are to put up the veil under the hooks, and put inside it the ark of the law: the veil is to be a division between the holy place and the most holy.

³⁵ And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

¹ And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high; ² Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it. ³ And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other, ⁴ And rods of the same wood plated with gold. ⁵ These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ⁶ And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. ⁷ And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover; ⁸ Placing one at one end and one at the other; the winged ones were part of the cover. ⁹ And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

³ And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.

¹⁶ The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second. ¹⁷ Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

¹⁴ First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

² And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones. ³ And they put the ark of God on a new cart and took it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were the drivers of the cart. ⁴ And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it. ⁵ And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass. ⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control. ⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God. ⁸ And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day. ⁹ And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

⁷ And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.

⁵¹ And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;

³ And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

¹³ And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ¹⁴ And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it. ¹⁵ The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.

¹⁹ The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.

¹ And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

⁴¹ The robes for use in the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron and his sons when acting as priests.

⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.

¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;

⁷ For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods. ⁸ The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.

²³ And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high, ²⁴ Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it; ²⁵ And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame. ²⁶ And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table; ²⁷ The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted. ²⁸ Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table. ²⁹ And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold. ³⁰ And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

¹⁰ And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high; ¹¹ Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it. ¹² And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round. ¹³ And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet. ¹⁴ The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted. ¹⁵ The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold. ¹⁶ And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.

⁵ And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake. ⁶ And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord. ⁷ And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ⁸ Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.

⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them;

⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:

³¹ And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal. ³² It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other. ³³ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches. ³⁴ And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower: ³⁵ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all the six branches of it. ³⁶ The buds and the branches are to be made of the same metal; all together one complete work of hammered gold. ³⁷ Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it. ³⁸ And the instruments and trays for use with it are all to be of the best gold. ³⁹ A talent of gold will be needed for it, with all these vessels.

¹⁷ Then he made the support for the lights, all of the best gold; its base and its pillar were of hammered gold; its cups and buds and flowers were all made out of the same metal: ¹⁸ It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other; ¹⁹ Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches; ²⁰ And on its pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower; ²¹ And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it. ²² The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold. ²³ And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold. ²⁴ A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.

¹⁰⁵ NUN Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

²⁰ The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.

⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place.

¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.

¹ And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made. ² The altar is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high, and its horns are to be made of the same. ³ It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it. ⁴ Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it. ⁵ And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold. ⁶ And let it be placed in front of the veil before the ark of the law, before the cover which is over the law, where I will come face to face with you. ⁷ And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. ⁸ And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. ⁹ No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it. ¹⁰ And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹² When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered. ¹³ And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs: this money is an offering to the Lord. ¹⁴ Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord. ¹⁵ The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives. ¹⁶ And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁸ You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it; ¹⁹ That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;

²⁵ And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same. ²⁶ The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it. ²⁷ And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it. ²⁸ The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.

³⁸ And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

⁵ And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House.

²⁶ And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil: ²⁷ Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders.

⁹ Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

¹⁰ And the robes of needlework, the holy robes for Aaron and for his sons, for their use when acting as priests,

⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.

⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them;

¹⁴ And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away. ¹⁵ And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.

²⁹ And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.

¹¹ And Huram made all the pots and the spades and the basins. So he came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of God:

¹⁶ All the pots and the spades and the meat-hooks and their vessels, which Huram, who was as his father, made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass.

¹⁹ And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,

²² The scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, of the best gold; and the inner doors of the house, opening into the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, were all of gold.

¹ And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. ² Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. ³ And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. ⁴ And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. ⁵ And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. ⁶ And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. ⁷ And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. ⁸ The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

¹² The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned. ¹³ Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.

⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:

¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.

¹ The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, ² And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass; ³ And brass was used for all the vessels of the altar, the baskets and the spades, the basins and the meat-hooks and the fire-trays; all the vessels he made of brass ⁴ And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up; ⁵ And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods. ⁶ The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass. ⁷ He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

¹² And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

³⁸ And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.

⁹ But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

²¹ Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

⁹ Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

¹⁰ For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.

¹⁹ But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control. ⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

¹³ And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.

⁹ And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping. ¹⁰ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.

² Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.

¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind, ¹⁹ And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them: ²⁰ For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them; ²¹ And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear. ²² But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered, ²³ To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete, ²⁴ And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood. ²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven? ²⁶ Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven. ²⁷ And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible. ²⁸ If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect: ²⁹ For our God is an all-burning fire.

⁶ Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

²⁰ Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times. ²¹ Let Aaron and his sons put this in order, evening and morning, before the Lord, inside the Tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the ark; this is to be an order for ever, from generation to generation, to be kept by the children of Israel.

³⁹ One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening: ⁴⁰ And with the one lamb, a tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with a fourth part of a hin of clear oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. ⁴¹ And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

²³ Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, ²⁴ And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: ²⁵ And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil. ²⁶ This oil is to be put on the Tent of meeting, and on the ark of the law, ²⁷ And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices, ²⁸ And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base. ²⁹ And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy. ³⁰ And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me. ³¹ And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation. ³² It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy. ³³ Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people. ³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights; ³⁵ And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. ³⁶ And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. ³⁷ You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord. ³⁸ Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

¹¹ And the holy oil, and the perfume of sweet spices for the holy place; they will do whatever I have given you orders to have done.

²⁹ And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.

²⁰ This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,

³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

²⁸ Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

¹ Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

⁵ For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

¹ For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

⁶ But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

²⁵ Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

² Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. ² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

³² And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

⁵ You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

²³ And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.

² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

¹⁹ And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.

¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei.

²¹ From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites.

²⁴ The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael.

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

³ And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation. ² Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes? ³ I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red. ⁴ For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

¹⁴ For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin. ¹⁵ And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do. ¹⁶ But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good. ¹⁷ So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. ¹⁸ For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right. ¹⁹ For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do. ²⁰ But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. ²¹ So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me. ²² In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God, ²³ But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh. ²⁴ How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

⁷ Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

⁷ In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

³ For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh ⁴ For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places; ⁵ Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

¹⁷ For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. ¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. ¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. ¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. ¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; ¹⁶ And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. ¹⁷ And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

³ Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus. ⁴ A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:

²⁷ From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

⁴⁷ Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport,

⁴⁹ At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

¹⁴ And then you are to make a cover for the tent, of sheepskins coloured red, and a cover of leather over that.

²⁵ In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

⁵ Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work. ⁶ So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. ⁷ Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon for their work;

⁹ And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

¹⁸ The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;

⁷⁰ As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,

² Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.

³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁵ And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.

³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet. ² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters. ³ Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men. ⁴ The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek. ⁵ In the day of his wrath kings will be wounded by the Lord at your right hand. ⁶ He will be judge among the nations, the valleys will be full of dead bodies; the head over a great country will be wounded by him. ⁷ He will take of the stream by the way; so his head will be lifted up.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour. ¹² Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.

⁴ A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

⁷ I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith: ⁸ From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

¹⁵ And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.

³⁶ And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ³⁷ And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.

⁸ And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ⁹ But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing; because they had the care of the holy place, taking it about on their backs.

¹⁷ And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

²¹ This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

¹ And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;

²⁸ This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁶ Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.

⁶ When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

³⁹ All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting,

⁴³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting,

²⁶ And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites. ²⁷ So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

¹³ And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;

³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

²⁵ Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: ⁹ To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues: ¹¹ But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is. ¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me. ¹⁰ So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

²³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ²⁴ This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.

³⁷ This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

⁶ And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith; ⁷ Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it; ⁸ He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

⁴ Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all. ⁷ But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good. ⁸ For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit: ⁹ To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit; ¹⁰ And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues: ¹¹ But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is. ¹² For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ. ¹³ For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one part, but a number of parts. ¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same. ¹⁷ If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him. ¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now they are all different parts, but one body. ²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ²² No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary; ²³ And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect; ²⁴ But those parts of the body which are beautiful have no need of such care: and so the body has been joined together by God in such a way as to give more honour to those parts which had need of it; ²⁵ So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another. ²⁶ And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad. ²⁷ Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it. ²⁸ And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues. ²⁹ Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders? ³⁰ Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense? ³¹ But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.

³⁹ All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.

¹⁴ For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

⁵⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

⁵¹ And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;

⁴¹ This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

⁴⁵ This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

² And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; ³ And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears: ⁴ But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.

¹ See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations. ² He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets. ³ He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples. ⁴ His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching. ⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says: ⁶ I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations: ⁷ To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

¹ Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind: ² And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place; ³ And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen; ⁴ And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward. ⁵ And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength. ⁶ It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. ⁷ The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself. ⁸ This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;

⁴ For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use, ⁵ So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;