Leviticus 27 Cross References - NSB

¹ Jehovah spoke to Moses: ² »Give the following regulations for the people of Israel: ‘When any of you have been given to Jehovah in fulfillment of a special vow, you may be set free by the payment of the following sums of money, ³ »‘This is according to the official standard: adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver, adult female: thirty pieces of silver, young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver, young female: ten pieces of silver, infant male under five: five pieces of silver, infant female: three pieces of silver, male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver, female above sixty: ten pieces of silver. ⁴ »‘If it is a woman, give twelve ounces. ⁵ »‘For a boy from five to twenty years old, give eight ounces and for a girl give four ounces. ⁶ »‘For a boy from one month to five years old, give two ounces of silver and for a girl give about one ounce. ⁷ For a man sixty years or over, give six ounces and for a woman give four ounces. ⁸ »‘The person who is too poor to pay the required amount must stand in front of the priest. The priest will determine the amount based on what the person can afford. ⁹ »‘If the vow is to give the kind of animal that people offer to Jehovah, it will be considered holy. ¹⁰ »‘Do not exchange or substitute animals, a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If you do exchange one animal for another, then both animals will be holy. ¹¹ »‘If it is an unclean animal that cannot be brought to Jehovah as an offering, bring it in front of the priest. ¹² »‘The priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹³ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁴ »‘If you give your house to Jehovah as something holy, the priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹⁵ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁶ »‘If a person gives part of a field to Jehovah as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with two quarts of barley will be worth twenty ounces of silver. ¹⁷ »‘If you give your field in the jubilee year, it will have its full value. ¹⁸ »‘Should you give the field after the jubilee year, the priest will estimate its value based on the number of years left until the next jubilee year. ¹⁹ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ²⁰ »‘If you do not buy it back and it is sold to someone else, it may not be redeemed. ²¹ »‘When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by Jehovah. It will become the property of the priest. ²² »‘You may give a field you bought, not one that was a part of your family property, to Jehovah as something holy. ²³ »‘The priest must figure out the field's value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to Jehovah. ²⁴ »‘In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property. ²⁵ »‘All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place. ²⁶ »‘A firstborn animal already belongs to Jehovah because it was born first. Therefore, it cannot be set apart as holy. Whether it is a bull or a sheep, it belongs to Jehovah. ²⁷ »‘If it is an unclean animal it must be bought back. The payment will be its full value plus one-fifth more. If it is not bought back, it must be sold at the value given it. ²⁸ »‘However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah. ²⁹ »‘People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death. ³⁰ »‘One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³¹ »‘If you buy back any part of it, you must add one-fifth more to it. ³² »‘Every tenth head of cattle or sheep that you counted is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³³ »‘You must not look to see if it is good or bad or exchange it. If you do exchange it, both the first animal and its substitute will be holy. They may not be bought back.’« ³⁴ These are the commandments Jehovah gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.

²⁰ »Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!« Abram gave him one tenth of everything.

²⁰ Jacob made a vow. He said: »If God will be with me and will watch over me on my trip and give me food to eat and clothes to wear, ²¹ »and if I return safely to my father’s home, then Jehovah will be my God. ²² »This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.«

²² »This stone I placed as a marker will be the house of God. I will certainly give you a tenth of everything you give me.«

² »Consecrate (appoint) (sanctify) all the first-born males to me. Every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me!«

¹² sacrifice every firstborn male offspring to Jehovah. The firstborn male offspring of each of your animals belongs to Jehovah. ¹³ »It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy any firstborn donkey back from Jehovah. You must break the donkey’s neck if you do not buy it back. You must also buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah.

²⁰ »The person who sacrifices to any god except Jehovah must be condemned and destroyed.

³⁰ »Do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. Its mother may keep it for seven days. On the eighth day give it to me.

¹³ »Everyone included in the census must pay the required amount of money. It should be weighed according to the official standard. Everyone must pay this as an offering to me.

⁴⁰ Jehovah said to Moses: »Register every firstborn male of the Israelites who is at least one month old, and make a list of their names. ⁴¹ »I am Jehovah. Take the Levites for me to be substitutes for all firstborn Israelites. Also take the animals of the Levites to be substitutes for all firstborn animals of the Israelites.« ⁴² Moses registered all the firstborn Israelites as Jehovah commanded him. ⁴³ The total of all the firstborn males at least one month old was twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy three. They were listed by name.

⁴⁷ »It will cost you two ounces of silver per person, using the standard weight of the holy place, to buy them back.

⁷ »If you cannot afford a sheep, you must bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to Jehovah as a guilt offering for the sin you committed. One will be an offering for sin. The other will be a burnt offering.

¹¹ »If you cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, bring eight cups of flour as an offering for the sin you committed. Never put olive oil on it or add incense to it. This is because it is an offering for sin.

¹⁵ »If any of you fail to do your duty by unintentionally doing something wrong with any of Jehovah’s holy things, bring a guilt offering to Jehovah. It must be a ram that has no defects or its value in silver weighed according to the official standards of the holy place. ¹⁶ »You must make the payments you have failed to hand over and must pay an additional twenty percent. Give it to the priest. The priest will offer the animal as a sacrifice for your sin. You will be forgiven.

⁴ you have sinned and are guilty. Return what you stole or seized, what you were supposed to take care of, the lost item you found, ⁵ or whatever it was that you swore falsely about. Pay it back in full plus one-fifth more. Give it back to its owner on the day you bring your guilt offering. ⁶ »Then bring your guilt offering to Jehovah. Bring a ram that has no defects or its value in money. Bring it to the priest.

⁸ »‘If she cannot afford a lamb, she must use two mourning doves or two pigeons. One will be the burnt offering and the other the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for sin and make peace with Jehovah for her and she will be clean.’«

²¹ »If the one to be cleansed is poor and cannot afford that much, he must take one male lamb, present it to pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for himself, and use it for his guilt offering. He will take only eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, a quart of olive oil, ²² and two mourning doves or two pigeons, whatever he can afford. The one will be an offering for sin and the other a burnt offering.

¹⁴ »‘If any people who are not members of a priestly family eat any of the sacred offerings without intending to, they must repay the priest its full value plus an additional twenty percent.

¹⁰ »‘In this way you will set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold must be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves may return to their families.

¹⁵ »‘Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. ¹⁶ »‘In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.

²⁵ »‘If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back.

²⁷ you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again. ²⁸ »‘If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again. ²⁹ »‘If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time. ³⁰ »‘If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee. ³¹ »‘Houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.

³¹ »‘Houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.

⁵¹ »‘If there are many years left, he must refund from his purchase price an amount equal to those years. ⁵² »‘If there are only a few years left until the year of jubilee, he must take them into account. He must refund from his purchase price an amount equal to those years.

⁴⁶ These are the laws, rules, and instructions Jehovah gave to the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

³ »‘This is according to the official standard: adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver, adult female: thirty pieces of silver, young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver, young female: ten pieces of silver, infant male under five: five pieces of silver, infant female: three pieces of silver, male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver, female above sixty: ten pieces of silver.

¹⁰ »‘Do not exchange or substitute animals, a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If you do exchange one animal for another, then both animals will be holy. ¹¹ »‘If it is an unclean animal that cannot be brought to Jehovah as an offering, bring it in front of the priest. ¹² »‘The priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹³ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁴ »‘If you give your house to Jehovah as something holy, the priest will determine what its value is. The value will be whatever the priest decides. ¹⁵ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more.

¹⁵ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ¹⁶ »‘If a person gives part of a field to Jehovah as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with two quarts of barley will be worth twenty ounces of silver. ¹⁷ »‘If you give your field in the jubilee year, it will have its full value. ¹⁸ »‘Should you give the field after the jubilee year, the priest will estimate its value based on the number of years left until the next jubilee year.

¹⁸ »‘Should you give the field after the jubilee year, the priest will estimate its value based on the number of years left until the next jubilee year. ¹⁹ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more.

¹⁹ »‘If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more. ²⁰ »‘If you do not buy it back and it is sold to someone else, it may not be redeemed.

²⁰ »‘If you do not buy it back and it is sold to someone else, it may not be redeemed. ²¹ »‘When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by Jehovah. It will become the property of the priest.

²¹ »‘When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by Jehovah. It will become the property of the priest. ²² »‘You may give a field you bought, not one that was a part of your family property, to Jehovah as something holy. ²³ »‘The priest must figure out the field's value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to Jehovah. ²⁴ »‘In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property. ²⁵ »‘All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place.

²⁵ »‘All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place. ²⁶ »‘A firstborn animal already belongs to Jehovah because it was born first. Therefore, it cannot be set apart as holy. Whether it is a bull or a sheep, it belongs to Jehovah. ²⁷ »‘If it is an unclean animal it must be bought back. The payment will be its full value plus one-fifth more. If it is not bought back, it must be sold at the value given it. ²⁸ »‘However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah.

²⁸ »‘However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah. ²⁹ »‘People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death.

²⁹ »‘People dedicated this way may not be bought back. They must be put to death. ³⁰ »‘One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³¹ »‘If you buy back any part of it, you must add one-fifth more to it. ³² »‘Every tenth head of cattle or sheep that you counted is holy and belongs to Jehovah. ³³ »‘You must not look to see if it is good or bad or exchange it. If you do exchange it, both the first animal and its substitute will be holy. They may not be bought back.’«

¹ Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai. It was the first day of the second month in the second year after leaving Egypt. He said:

² »Tell the Israelites: ‘A man or a woman may make a special vow to live as a Nazirite dedicated to Jehovah.

² Then the Israelites made a vow to Jehovah: »If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them.«

² Then the Israelites made a vow to Jehovah: »If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them.« ³ Jehovah heard them and helped them conquer the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their cities, and named the place Hormah.

³ »A young girl, who still lives in her father’s house, might make a vow to Jehovah that she will do something or swear an oath that she will not do something.

¹⁴ »Anything in Israel that is claimed by Jehovah is yours.

¹⁴ »Anything in Israel that is claimed by Jehovah is yours. ¹⁵ »Every firstborn male, human or animal that is brought to Jehovah is yours. But you must buy back every firstborn son and the firstborn male of any unclean animal. ¹⁶ »When they are one month old, you must buy them back at the fixed price of two ounces of silver using the standard weight of the holy place.

¹⁶ »When they are one month old, you must buy them back at the fixed price of two ounces of silver using the standard weight of the holy place. ¹⁷ »You must never buy back a firstborn bull, sheep, or goat. They are holy. Throw the blood from these animals against the altar. Burn the fat as an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah.

²¹ »I have given the Levites one-tenth of every Israelite’s income. This is in return for the work they do at the tent of meeting. ²² »The other Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting. Otherwise, they will suffer the consequences of their sin and die. ²³ »Only the Levites will do the work at the tent of meeting. They are responsible for their own sins. This is a long lasting law for future generations. They will own no property, as the other Israelites will. ²⁴ »Instead, I will give the Levites what the Israelites contribute to Jehovah, one-tenth of the Israelites’ income. This is why I said about them: They will own no property as the other Israelites do.«

⁵ »I have taught you laws and rules as Jehovah my God commanded me. You must obey them when you enter the land and take possession of it.

¹ »Jehovah your God will bring you into the land you are to possess. He will clear away many nations ahead of you. The nations he will clear: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. These seven nations are larger and mightier than you. ² »Jehovah your God will deliver them to you. You must crush them! Completely destroy them. You should make no covenant with them. Do not show them mercy.

⁵ »You should seek Jehovah at the place Jehovah your God chooses out of all your tribes. This is where he will dwell and establish his name. This is where you should go. ⁶ »There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, and the contribution of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

¹⁵ strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶ »Gather all its treasure into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its treasure with fire as a whole burnt offering to Jehovah your God. It shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt. ¹⁷ »Do not take anything that is put under ban. If you comply (obey), Jehovah may turn from his burning anger and show mercy to you. He may have compassion on you and make you increase, just as he swore to your fathers.

⁴⁵ After they came out of Egypt they were in the valley east of the Jordan River he gave them the laws.

²² »You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year. ²³ »You shall eat in the presence of Jehovah your God, at the place where He chooses to establish his name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to respect Jehovah your God always.

¹⁹ »To Jehovah your God you shall consecrate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

¹⁶ »Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property. ¹⁷ »You must capture the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites for Jehovah and completely destroy them. Jehovah your God commands you.

¹⁹ »When Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance to possess. You will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.

¹⁸ »Do not bring the hire (fee) of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow offering. Both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.

²¹ »When you vow to Jehovah your God do not delay the payback. It would be sin, and Jehovah your God will surely require it of you. ²² »It would not be sin if you refrain from vowing. ²³ »Be careful to perform the promise that comes from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to Jehovah your God. Keep your promise.

¹⁷ »The city and everything in it will be destroyed. It belongs to Jehovah. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house will live. Because she hid the messengers we sent.

¹⁷ »The city and everything in it will be destroyed. It belongs to Jehovah. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house will live. Because she hid the messengers we sent. ¹⁸ »You people must stay away from anything devoted to destruction. You should not take things from the city. You will cause trouble for the camp of Israel is you take of the accursed things. ¹⁹ »All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to Jehovah. They must come into the treasury of Jehovah.«

²⁶ Joshua pronounced an oath at that time, saying: »Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that rises up and builds this city Jericho. He will lay the foundation at the cost of his firstborn. He will set up the gates at the cost of his youngest son.«

¹ The children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

¹¹ »Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things and put them in their own possessions. ¹² »Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies. They ran from their enemies, because they were accursed. I will not be with you any more until you destroy the devoted things you have among you. ¹³ »Get up and sanctify the people. Say: ‘Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: »There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: You cannot stand before you enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.«

²⁵ Joshua said: »Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day.« All Israel stoned them with stones. After they stoned them they burned them with fire.

³⁰ Jephthah promised Jehovah: »If you give me victory over the Ammonites, ³¹ »I will sacrifice with a burnt offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I return from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice.« (Jeremiah 19:5)

³⁹ She returned to her father after two months. He did what he had promised Jehovah, and she died still a virgin. This was the origin of the custom in Israel.

⁵ They asked: »Is there any group out of all the tribes of Israel that did not go to the gathering in Jehovah’s presence at Mizpah?« (They had taken a solemn oath that anyone who had not gone to Mizpah would be put to death.)

¹¹ Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin.

¹⁸ »We cannot allow them to marry our daughters. We have put a curse on anyone who allows a Benjaminite to marry one of our daughters.«

¹¹ »O Jehovah of Hosts: If you will truly notice the sorrow of your servant. Remember me. Do not turn away from me. If you will give me a son, then I will give him to you, Jehovah, all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.«

²⁸ »So I am dedicating (giving) (granting) him to Jehovah. As long as he lives, he will belong to Jehovah.« Then they worshiped Jehovah there.

¹⁸ »Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead.

¹⁸ »Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead. ¹⁹ »Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you pounce on the plunder? Why did you do evil in the sight of Jehovah?« ²⁰ Then Saul said to Samuel: »I did obey the voice of Jehovah. I went on the mission Jehovah sent me. I brought back Agag the king of Amalek. I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. » ²¹ The people took from the plunder of the flock the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal. ²² Samuel said: »What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams. ²³ »The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.«

³² »Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites,« Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. »Surely, the bitterness of death is past,« Agag said. ³³ But Samuel said: »As your sword made women childless, so your mother will be made childless among women.« Samuel cut Agag in pieces in the presence of Jehovah at Gilgal.

²⁴ And all the people were with Saul. There were about twenty thousand men. The fight was general through all the mountains of Ephraim. Saul made a great error that day. He put the people under an oath, saying: »Let that man be cursed who eats any food before evening. I have taken vengeance on my enemies.« So the people did not eat. ²⁵ All the people came to the forest. There was honey on the ground. The bees had gone from it. ²⁶ When the people entered the woods, the honey was flowing. But no one put his hand to his mouth. The people were afraid of violating their oath. ²⁷ Jonathan had not heard that his father forced the people to take an oath. So he stretched out the tip of the staff he had in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he put it to his mouth his eyes lit up. ²⁸ Then one of the people told him: »Your father forced the people to take a solemn oath, saying: ‘Cursed is anyone who eats food today.’« That is why the people were exhausted.

³⁸ Saul called his army officers together and said: »We have to find out what sin has kept God from answering. ³⁹ »I promise by the living Jehovah, who gives Israel victory, that the guilty one will be put to death, even if he is my son Jonathan.« But no one said anything. ⁴⁰ Then Saul said to them: »All of you stand over there. Jonathan and I will stand over here.« »Do whatever you think best,« they answered. ⁴¹ Saul said to Jehovah the God of Israel, give a perfect lot. Jonathan and Samuel were taken, but the people escaped. ⁴² Then Saul said: »Cast lots to decide between my son Jonathan and me.« And Jonathan was indicated. ⁴³ Then Saul asked Jonathan: »What have you done?« Jonathan answered: »I ate a little honey with the stick I was holding. Here I am. I am ready to die.« ⁴⁴ Saul said: »May God strike me dead if you are not put to death!« ⁴⁵ But the people said to Saul: »Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death?« »No! We promise by the living Jehovah that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God’s help.« So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.

³ »‘Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Do not have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.’«

⁴ Jehoash said to the priests: »All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of Jehovah, the amount fixed for every man's payment, and all the money given by any man freely by motivation of his heart,

⁵ As soon as the order was given, the people of Israel brought gifts of their finest grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and other farm produce, and they also brought the tithes of everything they had. ⁶ All the people who lived in the cities of Judah brought tithes of their cattle and sheep. They also brought large quantities of gifts they dedicated to Jehovah their God.

¹² and put all the gifts and tithes in them for safekeeping. They placed a Levite named Conaniah in charge and made his brother Shimei his assistant.

⁸ And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse. He himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.

³⁷ That we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God. The tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites for the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land. ³⁸ The priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths. The Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the storehouse.

⁴⁴ Men were stationed over the houses where the contributions and the first fruits and the tenths were stored. They were to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town. The law fixed this for the priests and the Levites: Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

⁵ Had made a great room ready for him. This is where they once kept the meal offerings, the perfume, the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil. They were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

¹² All Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the storehouses.

¹⁰ The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

² I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. ³ I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it. ⁴ A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will not know a wicked person. ⁵ I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart. ⁶ My eyes will be watching the faithful people in the land so that they may live with me. The person who lives with integrity will serve me. ⁷ The one who does deceitful things will not stay in my home. The one who tells lies will not remain in my presence.

⁴ Do not be late in paying a vow you make to God. He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow! ⁵ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

¹⁰ »A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.«

⁷ Jehovah asked: Why should I forgive the sins of my people? They have abandoned me and have worshiped gods that are not real. I fed my people until they were full, but they committed adultery and spent their time with prostitutes.

¹³ »‘In mountain towns, in the foothills, and in southern Judah, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, shepherds will once again count their sheep.’ I Jehovah have spoken.«

³⁷ ‘I will take firm control of you and make you obey my covenant.

²⁹ »‘They will eat grain offerings, offerings for sin, and guilt offerings. Everything in Israel that is devoted to Jehovah will belong to them.

¹¹ »‘The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure. ¹² »‘One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.’

¹² »‘One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.’ ¹³ »‘This is the contribution you must give to Jehovah: seventeen percent of your wheat and seventeen percent of your barley. ¹⁴ »‘You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure.

² So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

¹⁴ Shepherd your people, the flock of your heritage, with your staff. They dwell alone in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

¹² I said to them, »If it is good in your sight give me my wages, if not forget it.« So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ Jehovah said to me, »Throw it to the potter,« the amount they paid me. I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Jehovah.

¹⁴ »The cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me will be cursed. For he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! I am a great King,« Jehovah of Hosts declares. »People of all nations will respect my name!«

⁸ »I ask you: ‘will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!’ ‘How have we robbed and defrauded?’ You ask. ‘In the matter of tithes and offerings.’ ⁹ »A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me. ¹⁰ »Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want.

²³ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

⁴¹ »Then he will tell those on his left: ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels.

⁹ Then Jeremiah’s prophecy was fulfilled: »They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price he was valued by the children of Israel. ¹⁰ »Then they paid for the potter’s field, just as God directed.«

¹⁵ He asked them: »What are you willing to give me to deliver him to you?« They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

⁷ »You always have the poor with you and you can do them good. You do not always have me.

⁴² »Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.

¹² »I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.

¹ He saw rich men putting their gifts into the treasury. ² Then he saw a poor widow putting in two small coins. ³ »I tell you a truth,« he said: »This poor widow gave more than all of them. ⁴ »They all gave out of their surplus but she gave out of her poverty. She gave all that she had for living expenses.«

¹⁷ The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.

³⁴ There was no needy person among them for as many as possessed land or houses sold them, and brought the money from the things that were sold. ³⁵ They gave it to the apostles. Distribution was made to every man according as he had need. ³⁶ Joses, who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, (this meaning: The son of consolation,) was a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus. ³⁷ He sold his land and brought the money to the apostles.

⁴ While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your power? Why did you conceive this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.«

¹² When day arrived some of the Jews came together and united with an oath saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. ¹³ There were more than forty involved in this conspiracy. ¹⁴ They went to the chief priests and elders and said: »We have united with a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.

³ I could wish that I were accursed (separated) (banned) (excommunicated) from Christ for the good of (in behalf of) my countrymen and brothers (the Jews).

²² If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come O Lord!

¹² For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.

¹⁰ Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, »Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.«

¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; »Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.«

²⁴ This contains an allegory (symbolic drama). These women symbolize two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She corresponds to the Jerusalem that now is. She is in bondage with her children.

⁵ The descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the Law to take tithes from the people. This is from their brothers, for these are descended from Abraham. ⁶ But this man does not have their genealogy. He received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. ⁷ It is beyond dispute that the superior blesses the inferior. ⁸ In this instance mortal men receive tithes, in the other by the one of whom it is testified that he lives. ⁹ One might even say that Levi, the priest who takes the tenth from the people, gave his tenth through Abraham.

¹⁸ You have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm. ¹⁹ You have not come to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of a voice. When the people heard the voice, they begged not to hear another word. ²⁰ They could not bear the order: »If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.« ²¹ The sight was so terrible (formidable) (fearful) that Moses said: »I am full of fear and trembling.« ²² You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads (thousands of thousands) of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and congregation of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just (righteous) (holy) men made perfect (mature) (having all needed qualities). ²⁴ You have come to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks in a better way than the blood of Abel. ²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

⁸ A double-minded man is unstable (inconsistent) in all his ways.