Leviticus 23 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set days; these are my festivals. ³ Six days thou shalt perform works, but on the seventh day are sabbaths, a solemn rest dedicated to the Lord, thou shalt not do any work. Sabbaths are for the Lord in all your dwellings. ⁴ These are the festivals for the Lord; holy, set days, which you shall proclaim in their set times. ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover for the Lord. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this month beginneth the festival of unleavened bread for the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service, ⁸ but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service. ⁹ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest, ¹¹ and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you; On the morrow after the first day, the priest shall offer this up. ¹² And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, ¹³ and for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord; and for the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine. ¹⁴ You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains, of the new corn, till this day; until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings, ¹⁵ That from the morrow of these sabbaths; from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, ¹⁶ even till the morrow after the last week, you shall reckon fifty days, and then offer a sacrifice of new corn to the Lord. ¹⁷ You shall bring from your dwelling two loaves, as loaves of dedication. They shall consist of two tenths of fine flour. Being of the first fruits for the Lord, ¹⁸ they shall be baked with leaven. And with the loaves you shall present seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, and one young bull from the herd, and two rams without blemish; and they shall be a whole burnt offering for the Lord; and their sacrifices, and their libations, shall be a sacrifice, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. ¹⁹ They shall also prepare one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year, for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, with the loaves of the first fruits. ²⁰ And the priest shall dedicate these, with the loaves of the first fruits, as a dedication before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be dedicated to the Lord; they shall be for the priest who offereth them. ²¹ And you shall call this day, a set day. It shall be hallowed for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings. ²² And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make a clean riddance of the harvest of thy field when thou reapest, nor shalt thou gather up the gleanings of thy harvest. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God. ²³ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a rest for yon; a memorial of trumpets. ²⁵ It shall be a holy set day for you. You shall not do any sacrificial service, but offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord. ²⁶ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ On the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of Atonement. It shall be a holy set day for you; and you shall humble your souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord. ²⁸ On this day you shall not do any kind of work: for it is the day of Atonement for you, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. ²⁹ Every soul who shall not humble himself on that day, shall be cut off from among his people. ³⁰ And every person who shall do any work on that day, shall be destroyed from among the people. ³¹ You shall not do any kind of work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings. ³² They shall be sabbaths of sabbaths for you, that you may humble your souls. From the ninth of the month, from evening till evening, you shall keep these sabbaths of yours. ³³ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days for the Lord. ³⁵ The first day shall be proclaimed holy. You shall do no sacrificial work; ³⁶ seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service. ³⁷ These are the festivals for the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, in order that you may offer homage offerings to the Lord; whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations; that allotted for each day on its day, ³⁸ over and above the sabbaths of the Lord, and over and above your gifts, even besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, which you may give to the Lord. ³⁹ Now on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you have finished the ingathering of the products of the land, you shall begin this festival of seven days for the Lord. On the first day there shall be a rest; and on the eighth day, a rest. ⁴⁰ And on the first day you shall take the ripe fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and bushy boughs of trees and willows, and branches of the willow of the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days of the year. ⁴¹ It shall be an everlasting statute for your generations. In the seventh month you shall celebrate this festival. ⁴² You shall dwell in booths seven days. All that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, ⁴³ that your posterity may see that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in tents when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. ⁴⁴ And when Moses had mentioned these festivals of the Lord to the Israelites,

¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me; ¹⁵ the festival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new things. For in that month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. ¹⁶ Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field. ¹⁷ Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God;

⁵ And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation, saying, To-morrow is the festival of the Lord.

⁴ These are the festivals for the Lord; holy, set days, which you shall proclaim in their set times.

²¹ And you shall call this day, a set day. It shall be hallowed for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁷ These are the festivals for the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, in order that you may offer homage offerings to the Lord; whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations; that allotted for each day on its day,

⁴⁴ And when Moses had mentioned these festivals of the Lord to the Israelites,

² Make for thyself two silver trumpets. Thou shalt make them of ductile silver, each beaten out of one piece. And they shall serve thee to assemble the congregation, and to cause the camps to remove. ³ When thou shalt blow with them, all the congregation shall assemble at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony;

¹⁰ In the days of your rejoicings also, and at your festivals, and at your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets, at your whole burnt offerings, and at your sacrifices of thanksgivings; and it shall be a calling of you into remembrance before the Lord; I the Lord your God.

³⁹ These you shall offer to the Lord at your festivals, over and above your vows, and your free will offerings, and your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your libations, and your offerings of thanksgiving.

²⁰ Then Jehu said, Hallow a solemnity for Baal. And when they had proclaimed it,

⁵ therefore they determined to make proclamation, throughout all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they might come and keep the passover, to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem, because a multitude had not done it according to the scripture.

³ Sound the trumpet at the new moon; at the set day of your festival.

¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: ¹⁴ your fasting and cessation from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer remit your sins.

²⁰ [c] Behold the city Sion is our salvation. Thine eyes will look upon Jerusalem. It is a rich city composed of tents which should not be shaken; nor should the pins of her tabernacle ever be moved, nor its cords broken.

⁴ The highways of Sion mourn; because none attend her festivals. All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan bitterly. Her virgins are carried away; and she is by herself in bitterness.

¹¹ I will indeed turn away all her pleasures, her festivals, and her new moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn assemblies.

¹⁴ Set apart a fast; proclaim a solemn service; assemble the elders; all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of your God, and cry to the Lord incessantly,

¹⁵ Sound the trumpet in Sion. Appoint a fast; proclaim a solemn act of worship.

⁵ And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. ⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying, ⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

¹⁵ [p] Because yonder on the mountain are the swift feet of one bringing good news: even of one announcing peace; O Juda, solemnize thy festivals; pay thy vows; for they shall no more proceed to pass through thee for conflict. It is completely laid waste, entirely removed.

¹ After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹ For I wish you to know what a great struggle I have for you, and for them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person,

²³ whereupon he said to them, Is not this what the Lord spoke, Sabbaths are a rest holy to the Lord? As for to-morrow, bake what you chuse to bake and boil what you chuse to boil and what is left lay up for to-morrow.

²⁹ You see that because the Lord gave you this day for sabbaths, therefore on the sixth day he gave you the bread of two days. Abide ye every one at home. Let none go out from his place on the seventh day.

⁸ Remember the day of the sabbaths to hallow it. ⁹ Six days labour and do all thy works; ¹⁰ but on the seventh day are sabbaths to the Lord thy God; On it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger who sojourneth with thee; ¹¹ for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.

¹² Six days thou shalt do thy work; but on the seventh there shall be a rest; that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and that the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may repose.

¹³ Charge the children of Israel saying, See that you keep my sabbaths. It is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth you; ¹⁴ therefore you shall keep the sabbath, because it is holy to the Lord for you. He who profaneth it shall surely be put to death. Whoever shall do any work on it, that person shall be rooted out from among his people. ¹⁵ Six days thou shalt perform works, but on the seventh day are the sabbaths, a rest holy to the Lord. Whoever shall do any work on the seventh day shall be put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths and cause them to be kept throughout their generations. It is an everlasting covenant between me and the children of Israel. ¹⁷ It is for me a perpetual sign that in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and rested on the seventh.

²¹ Six days perform works, but on the seventh thou shalt rest. In seeding time and harvest it shall be a rest.

² Six days thou shalt perform works; but on the seventh there shall be a rest, holy sabbaths, a rest to the Lord; whoever doth work on it let him be put to death. ³ You shall not kindle a fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day. I am the Lord.

³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;

¹³ Labour six days, and do all thy works; ¹⁴ but on the seventh day are the sabbaths for the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work; neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the proselyte who sojourneth with thee; that thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and thy labouring beast may rest as well as thou.

² Happy the man who doth these things and the mortal who adhereth to them; and who is careful not to profane my sabbaths, and who restraineth his hands from doing evil.

⁶ And with regard to the strangers who cleave to the Lord to serve him, and love the name of the Lord; to be his man servants and maid servants, even all who are careful not to profane my sabbaths and who adhere to my covenant;

¹³ If on account of the sabbaths thou restrain thy foot from doing thy pleasure on that holy day; and call the sabbaths delightful, dedicated to God; and wilt not lift up thy foot for any work; nor utter a word in anger from thy mouth;

¹⁴ Upon which the ruler of the synagogue, to express his indignation because Jesus cured on the sabbath day, addressed the people and said, There are six days on which work should be done: come therefore on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.

⁵⁶ they returned and provided spices and ointments of myrrh, and had rested the sabbath, according to. the commandment,

²¹ because from generations of old Moses hath in every city them who preach him, being read in the synagogue every sabbath.

¹⁰ I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet,

¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me;

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set days; these are my festivals.

² This month shall he to you the beginning of months. It is the first for you among the months of the year. ³ Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say, On the tenth of this month let them take every one a sheep according to the houses of patriarchal families, every one a sheep for a family; ⁴ and if there be too few in the family to be sufficient for one sheep, let him associate with him his next neighbour. With regard to the number of souls, every one shall collect to him a number sufficient for a sheep. ⁵ Your sheep shall be without blemish, a male and in its first year. You may take either from the lambs or the kids. ⁶ And it shall be kept up by you until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening. ⁷ And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the door of the house in which they are to eat it. ⁸ And that night they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire. They shall also eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs. ⁹ You shall not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted with fire, head and feet and carcase together. ¹⁰ Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morning you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And in this manner you shall eat it. Your loins shall be girded. Your sandals shall be on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And you shall eat it in haste. It is a passover to the Lord. ¹² For in that night I will pass through the land of Egypt, and smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. And upon all the gods of the Egyptians I will execute vengeance. I am the Lord. ¹³ But the blood shall be to you for a sign on the houses in which you are. And when I see the blood, I will protect you and there shall be no destroying plague among you, when I smite in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And that day shall be to you for a memorial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it.

¹⁸ Beginning at evening with the fourteenth day of the first month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty first day. ¹⁹ For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. Whoever shall eat leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation of Israel; whether he be a stranger or born in the land.

³ Therefore Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from the land of Egypt; from the house of bondage. For with a strong hand the Lord hath brought you out from this place; and let no leaven be eaten, ⁴ for on this day you are marching out in the month of new things. ⁵ And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites and the Pherezites which the Lord with an oath promised to thy fathers that he would give thee; a land flowing with milk and honey, thou shalt perform this religious service in this month. ⁶ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the Lord. ⁷ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee; nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders. ⁸ And on that day thou shalt tell thy son and say, This is on the account of what the Lord God did for me, when I came out of Egypt. ⁹ And it shall be to thee for a sign on thy hand and for a memorial before thy eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord thy God hath brought thee out of Egypt; ¹⁰ therefore you shall observe this law in revolving seasons from year to year.

¹⁵ the festival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new things. For in that month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty.

² Give orders, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. ³ On the fourteenth day of this first month, towards evening, thou shalt celebrate it in its season. According to its rites, and according to its institution, thou shalt celebrate it. ⁴ Accordingly Moses spoke to the children of Israel to keep the passover ⁵ on the fourteenth day of the first month, in the wilderness of Sina. And when the children of Israel were doing as the Lord commanded Moses, ⁶ there were some men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, and could not keep the passover; so these men came to Moses and Aaron on that day, ⁷ and said to them, We are defiled by the dead body of a man, must we therefore be deprived of the opportunity of offering our gift to the Lord, in its appointed season, among the children of Israel:

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the passover to the Lord, ¹⁷ and on the fifteenth day of the month shall commence the festival thereof. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

¹ Observe the month of New things, and keep the passover to the Lord thy God, because in the month of New things thou didst come out of the land of Egypt, by night. ² And at the passover thou shalt sacrifice to the Lord thy God, sheep, and kine, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked. ³ At it thou shalt not eat leaven. Seven days, at it, thou shalt eat unleavened bread; the bread of affliction, because you came in haste out of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life. ⁴ No leaven shall be seen in all thy borders for seven days, and none of the flesh of that which you shall sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall be left till the morning. ⁵ Thou shalt not be at liberty to keep the passover in any of the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, ⁶ but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse, for his name to be there invoked. Thou shalt kill the passover in the evening, at the setting of the sun, in the season thou didst come out of Egypt. ⁷ And when thou hast cooked, and roasted, and eaten it, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, in the morning thou mayst return and go home. ⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be the Exod; a festival to the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work, but what is necessary for life.

¹⁰ And on the fourteenth of the same month, towards evening, the children of Israel pre 11 pared the passover, on the confines of Jericho, in the plain of Jordan,

¹⁸ There had not been such a passover as this in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet. They had not, under any king of Israel, kept such a passover as that kept by Josias and the priests, and the Levites, and all Juda and Israel who were present, and by all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the Lord. ¹⁹ This passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias. After all these things which Josias did in the house, king Josias burned with fire the belly speakers and the diviners, and the theraphins and the idols, and the karesims, which were in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, in order that he might establish the words of the law, which were written in the book which Chelkias the priest had found in the house of the Lord. Before him there was none like him, who turned to the Lord with his whole heart, and with his whole soul, and with all his strength, according to all the law of Moses; nor after him did there arise his like. Nevertheless the Lord turned not away from his great wrath, with which he was incensed against Juda, for all the provocations with which Manasses had provoked him, and the Lord said, I will remove Juda from my presence, as I have removed Israel; I have cast off Jerusalem, the city which I chose, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

¹⁷ Now, on the first day of unleavened bread, his disciples came to Jesus, and said to him, Where wilt thou have us make preparation for thee to eat the passover?

¹² And on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread, the day when the paschal lamb was to be killed, his disciples said to him, Where wouldst thou have us go and prepare for thine eating the paschal lamb.

⁷ Now when the day of unleavened bread was come, on which the paschal lamb was to be killed,

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new mass as you are unleavened. For Christ our Paschal lamb is indeed slain for us, ⁸ so that we should keep the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. And from the first day you shall remove all leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel. ¹⁶ And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you

⁶ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the Lord. ⁷ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee; nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.

¹⁸ The festival of unleavened bread thou shalt keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread as I commanded thee at the set time in the month of new things; for in the month of new things thou didst come out of Egypt.

¹⁷ and on the fifteenth day of the month shall commence the festival thereof. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ¹⁸ Now, this first day shall be solemnly set apart for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service;

⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be the Exod; a festival to the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work, but what is necessary for life.

³ And as he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also. ⁴ But as this was during the days of unleavened bread, when he had apprehended him he put him in prison, committing him to the custody of four quaternions of soldiers, intending to bring him out to the people after the passover.

⁸ but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service.

²⁵ It shall be a holy set day for you. You shall not do any sacrificial service, but offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

³⁵ The first day shall be proclaimed holy. You shall do no sacrificial work; ³⁶ seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service.

¹⁸ Now, this first day shall be solemnly set apart for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service; ¹⁹ but you shall bring for whole burnt offerings; for an offering of homage to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. You must see that they are without blemish. ²⁰ And their sacrifice shall be fine flour, mixed up with oil, three tenths for each bull, and two tent! is for the ram, ²¹ and thou shalt prepare a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; ²² and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; ²³ over and above the whole burnt offering which is to be made every morning, and which is a continual whole burnt offering. ²⁴ After this manner you shall make daily offerings, during the seven days, as a gift; an offering of homage, for a smell of fragrance, to the Lord: Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, thou shalt offer it with its libation. ²⁵ And the seventh of these days shall be solemnly set apart for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work.

²⁹ The first fruits of thy threshing floor and of thy press thou shalt not withhold. The first born of thy sons thou shalt give to me.

¹⁶ Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field.

¹⁹ The dedications of the first products of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam.

²² The festival of weeks thou shalt celebrate for me at the beginning of the reaping of wheat; and the festival of the ingathering in the middle of the year.

²⁶ The first fruits of thy land thou shalt lay by for the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam.

¹² You may bring them as gifts of first fruits to the Lord; but they shall not be laid on the altar for a smell of fragrance for the Lord. ¹³ Every gift of your sacrifice must be seasoned with salt. You shall not withhold the salt of the covenant of the Lord from your sacrifices. With every gift you make, you shall offer salt to the Lord your God. ¹⁴ And when thou bringest a sacrifice of first fruits to the Lord, it must be young parched grains broken in the mill. This sacrifice of the first fruits thou shalt offer to the Lord, ¹⁵ and thou shalt pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. It is a sacrifice. ¹⁶ And the priest shall carry up as the memorial of it some of the broken grains with all the frankincense. It is an homage offering to the Lord.

³⁴ When you are come to the land of the Chananites which I give you for a possession, and I send a touch of a leprosy on the houses of the land which you possess,

¹⁷ You shall bring from your dwelling two loaves, as loaves of dedication. They shall consist of two tenths of fine flour. Being of the first fruits for the Lord,

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When you are come into the land of your habitation, which I give you,

¹⁸ Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When you come to the land to which I am conducting you, ¹⁹ this must be done. When you are about to eat of the bread of the land, you shall set apart a separate portion as a dedication to the Lord. ²⁰ As the first fruits of your dough you shalt set apart a loaf for this separate portion. As a dedication from the threshing floor, so shall you set this apart, ²¹ as the first portion of your dough, and you shall give it to the Lord as a dedication throughout your generations.

²⁶ And on the day of new things when you bring for the Lord the new sacrifice of the weeks, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service;

⁹ Seven weeks thou shalt number for thyself; from thy first beginning to put the sickle to the harvest thou shalt begin to number the seven weeks.

¹⁵ And soon as the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests, who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were dipped into a part of the water of the Jordan, though the Jordan overflowed all its banks, as in the days of wheat harvest,

⁹ Honour the Lord with some of thy righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

³⁰ All the first fruits and all the firstlings and all oblations. Of all your first fruits a part shall be for the priests, therefore you shall give your first fruits to the priest that your blessings may rest on your houses.

¹⁶ Now if that portion which is set apart from an offering is holy, so will the mass be. And if the root is holy, so are the branches:

²⁰ But now Christ hath been raised from the dead. He was the first fruits of them who have been composed to rest. ²¹ For since by man came death, by man also cometh a resurrection of the dead. ²² For as by Adam all die, so by the Christ all shall be brought to life: ²³ but every one in his proper order; Christ the first fruits; then they who belong to Christ, at his coming:

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women, for they are pure as virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men; first fruits for God and the Lamb.

²⁴ and thou shalt lay all these upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and set them apart as a dedication before the Lord.

²¹ Aaron took away the breast and the right shoulder as a portion set apart before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁴ The dedicated breast, and the dedicated shoulder, which are set apart, you shall eat in a holy place, thou, and thy sons, and thy household with thee, for it hath been given thee as thy due, and to thy sons as their due from the thank offerings of the children of Israel.

¹⁰ And if his gift to the Lord be from the flocks, either from the lambs or the kids for a whole burnt offering, he shall bring a male without blemish

¹⁰ by which will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once only. ¹¹ Though every priest hath indeed stood performing daily service, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, these can by no means take away sins; ¹² but he having offered for sins one sacrifice, to last for ever, sat down at the right hand of God,

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

⁴⁰ the one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning with a tenth of fine flour tempered with a quarter of a hin of expressed oil; and for a libation a quarter of a hin of wine for the first lamb: ⁴¹ and the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening with the same cake offering and the same libation as in the morning. For a smell of fragrance; as an offering of homage to the Lord

⁹ And upon it thou shalt not offer any other incense offering, homage offering, nor cake offering; nor shalt thou pour a libation thereon.

²⁴ and of iris five hundred shekels, sanctuary weight; and olive oil a hin;

²⁰ This is the gift of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer to the Lord, on the day when thou shalt anoint him, the tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a continual sacrifice; the half of it in the morning, and the half of it in the evening.

¹⁰ And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs, of the first year, without blemish, and three tenths of fine flour, tempered with oil, for a sacrifice, and one cotulus of oil;

³ and thou wilt offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, whether it be an offering of homage, or a sacrifice to magnify a vow, or a free will offering; or at your festivals, to make a smell of fragrance to the Lord; if they be from the herds or the flocks, ⁴ he who bringeth his gift to the Lord must also bring for a sacrifice of flour, the tenth of an ephah of fine flour, made up with the fourth of an hin of oil; ⁵ and for a libation you shall pour the fourth of an hin of wine upon the whole burnt offering, or upon the sacrifice; for every lamb you shall do this, as an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord: ⁶ But for a ram, when you offer one, for a whole burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, thou shalt offer two tenths of fine flour, made up with the third of an hin of oil, for a sacrifice: ⁷ and for a libation you shall offer a third of an hin of wine, for a smell of fragrance to the Lord. ⁸ And if you make your offering from the herds, for a whole burnt offering, or for a sacrifice to magnify a vow, or for an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord; ⁹ he who offereth must bring, with the young bull, three tenths of fine flour mixed up with the half of an hin of oil, for a sacrifice; ¹⁰ and the half of an hin of wine for a libation, as an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. ¹¹ Thus thou shalt do for every young bull, or for every ram, or for every lamb, or kid of the goats. ¹² According to the number which you offer, thus you shall do for every one, according to their number.

¹⁰ as the sabbath whole burnt offering, for every sabbath, over and above the continual whole burnt offering with its libation.

¹¹ and thou shalt drink water by measure, namely the sixth of an hin to be drunk at stated times.

²⁴ And thou shalt prepare a cake for the bull and cakes for the rams, with a hin of oil to the cake.

¹⁴ and every morning he shall prepare the libation for it, the sixth of the measure and the third of an hin of oil to mix up the offering of fine flour for the Lord.

⁹ Sacrifice and libation are taken away from the house of the Lord. Mourn ye priests, who minister at the Lord's altar,

¹³ gird yourselves, ye priests, and lament bitterly: sing the song of Woe, ye who minister at the altar; go in and sleep in sackcloth, ye ministers of God. Because sacrifice and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

¹⁴ Who knoweth but he will turn and relent, and leave behind him a blessing and a sacrifice and a libation for the Lord your God.

⁴ and Abel also brought, he indeed of the firstlings of his flock even some of the fattest of them, God looked upon Abel and on his gifts; ⁵ but upon Cain and upon his sacrifices he did not look with regard. Thereupon Cain was exceedingly grieved and his countenance became dejected.

¹⁷ All the .suet for the Lord shall be an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. You shall not eat suet nor blood of any kind.

¹¹ and to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath delivered them by the ministration of Moses.

²³ Now .when you come into the land which the Lord your God giveth you, you may plant all sorts of trees for food; but you must purge away their impurity. The fruit thereof shall be three years unclean to you, and shall not be eaten: ²⁴ and in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be hallowed, to praise the Lord; ²⁵ and in the fifth year, you may eat the fruit. The products thereof will be an additional supply to you. I am the Lord your God;

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, the land which I give you must rest sabbaths for the Lord. ³ Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof.

¹² And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt keep, and perform, these commandments.

¹¹ and ate of the corn of the land, unleavened cakes and parched corn. On that very day, ¹² after they had eaten the corn of the land, the manna ceased, and there was no more a supply of manna for the children of Israel. So they foraged the country of the Phoenicians that year.

¹⁴ Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbaths and didst prescribe for them commandments and statutes and a law by the ministry of thy servant Moses.

⁸ The statutes of the Lord are right, they rejoice the heart. The commandment of the Lord is clear, it enlighteneth the eyes.

¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest, ¹¹ and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you; On the morrow after the first day, the priest shall offer this up.

⁸ Moreover thou shalt reckon for thyself seven rests of years, seven times seven years, and these forty nine years, shall be the seven weeks of years;

⁹ Seven weeks thou shalt number for thyself; from thy first beginning to put the sickle to the harvest thou shalt begin to number the seven weeks. ¹⁰ And thou shalt keep the festival of weeks, to the Lord thy God, according to the ability of thy hand; according to what the Lord thy God may have given thee.

¹ Now when the day of pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in the same place.

¹² You may bring them as gifts of first fruits to the Lord; but they shall not be laid on the altar for a smell of fragrance for the Lord.

¹³ With loaves of leavened bread he shall present these gifts of his for a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving;

¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest,

¹⁷ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

¹ Now, when thou art come to the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, and hast taken possession of it, and dwelt therein; ² thou shalt take some of the first fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and put them in a basket, and go to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for his name to be there invoked;

³³ Another parable he stated to them, saying, The reign of the heavens is like leaven which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

²³ Nay, even they who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for an adoption the redemption of this body of ours.

²⁰ But now Christ hath been raised from the dead. He was the first fruits of them who have been composed to rest.

¹² And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, ¹³ and for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord; and for the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine.

²⁷ but you shall bring, as whole burnt offerings, for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, ²⁸ with their sacrifice of fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for each bull, and two tenths for the ram, ²⁹ and one tenth for every of the seven lambs; ³⁰ and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ³¹ Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, you shall offer me the sacrifice of these [and see that they be without blemish] together with the libations thereof.

¹³ you said, "These are because of affliction, "and though I rejected them, saith the Lord Almighty, yet you offered the torn, the lame and the sickly; if then you bring this sacrifice shall I accept such at your hands, saith the Lord Almighty, ¹⁴ when he is cursed, who is of ability and who hath a male in his flock and his vow upon him, and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupted thing? Because I am a great king, saith the Lord Almighty and1 my name is illustrious among the nations,

¹ And if his gift to the Lord be a sacrifice of thanks giving, and he bring it from the herd, whether it be a male or a female, he shall bring it without blemish before the Lord ² and shall lay his hands on the head of the gift and kill it before the Lord at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony. And the sons of Aaron, the priests shall pour the blood on the altar of whole burnt offerings round about: ³ And from the sacrifice of thanksgiving they shall offer up as an homage offering to the Lord the caul which covereth the belly and all the suet on the belly ⁴ and the two kidneys with the suet on them, and that on the flanks, and with the kidneys he shall take off the lobe of the liver. ⁵ And the sons of Aaron, the priests shall offer up these on the altar; on the whole burnt offerings which are on the wood on the fire. It is an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. ⁶ And if his gift be a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord from the flock, whether it be a male or a female, he shall offer it without blemish. ⁷ If he bring a lamb as his gift he shall bring it before the Lord ⁸ and lay his hands on the head of his gift and kill it at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the sons of Aaron the priest shall pour the blood on the altar round about. ⁹ And from the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer as an offering of homage to the Lord the fat tail and the whole loin which he shall take off with the rump; and having taken off the caul which covereth the inwards and all the fat on the belly ¹⁰ and the two kidneys with the suet on them and on the loin and the lobe of the liver with the kidneys ¹¹ the priest shall offer up these on the altar. It is a sweet savour, an offering of homage to the Lord. ¹² And if his gift be from the goats, he shall bring it before the Lord ¹³ and lay his hands on its head, and they shall kill it before the Lord at the doors of the tabernacle of the testimony; and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall pour out the blood against the altar round about; ¹⁴ And from it he shall offer up as an offering of homage to the Lord the caul which covereth the belly and all the fat on the belly ¹⁵ and both the kidneys and all the suet on them. That on the loins and the lobe of the liver he shall take off with the kidneys ¹⁶ and the priest shall offer them on the altar. It is an offering of homage, a smell of fragrance for the Lord. ¹⁷ All the .suet for the Lord shall be an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. You shall not eat suet nor blood of any kind.

²³ when the sin which he hath thereby committed is made known to him he shall bring as his gift a goat from the goats a male without blemish, ²⁴ and he shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the whole burnt offerings before the Lord. It is a sin offering. ²⁵ And the priest with his finger shall put some of the blood of this sin offering on the horns of the altar of whole burnt offerings. Now all the blood thereof he is to pour out at the base of the altar of whole burnt offerings ²⁶ and he shall offer all the suet thereof on the altar as he did the suet of the sacrifice of thanksgiving. So the priest shall make atonement for him because of the sins which he hath committed and it shall be forgiven him. ²⁷ And if any of the people of the land sin inadvertently by doing any of those things which by the commands of the Lord ought not to be done and shall transgress; ²⁸ when the sin which he hath thereby committed is made known to him, he shall bring a goat from the goats; he shall bring a she goat without blemish for the sin which he hath committed

¹¹ This is the law of the sacrifice of thanksgiving which they shall offer to the Lord: ¹² If one offereth it for praise, he shall bring with the sacrifice of praise loaves of fine flour make up with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and fine flour tempered with oil. ¹³ With loaves of leavened bread he shall present these gifts of his for a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; ¹⁴ and from every of these gifts of his he shall set apart one, and present it as a dedication to the Lord. It shall be for the priest who poureth out the blood of the victim offered for thanksgiving. ¹⁵ And the flesh of the victim of praise and thanksgiving shall be for himself, and shall be eaten on the day it is offered. They shall not leave any of it till the morning. ¹⁶ And if it be a vow; or if one offer his gift as a voluntary sacrifice, it shall be eaten on the day he offereth his sacrifice, or the next morning. ¹⁷ And what is left of the flesh of the sacrifice till the third day shall be burned with fire. ¹⁸ And if any one eat of the flesh on the third day, it shall not be accepted for him who offereth it. It shall not be placed to his account. It is an abomination. Whoever shall eat it shall contract guilt.

¹⁵ Then he shall kill the goat for a sin offering; that for the people, before the Lord, and he shall carry some of its blood within the veil, and do with the blood thereof as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle the blood thereof on the propitiatory, in front of the propitiatory,

²⁴ then shall this be done. If, escaping the notice of the congregation, it hath been done inadvertently, the whole congregation shall offer a young bull from the herd, without blemish, for a whole burnt offering, for a smell of fragrance for the Lord, with its sacrifice, and its libation, according to the rule prescribed, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

³⁰ and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.

³ for as it was out of the power of the law to do this, inasmuch as it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his own son in a likeness of sinful flesh, and to be a sin offering, hath condemned this sin in the flesh,

²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin, a sin offering for us, that by him we may be made the righteousness of God;

²⁹ Thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, and say, He who offereth a sacrifice of thanksgiving shall bring his gift to the Lord; and from the sacrifice of thanksgiving ³⁰ his own hands shall present, as his offerings of homage to the Lord, the suet, with the breast, and the lobe of the liver. These he shall present that they may be laid before the Lord as a gift. ³¹ And the priest shall offer up the suet on the altar; and the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons. ³² You shall also give the right shoulder, as a portion dedicated and set apart for the priest, from your sacrifices of thanksgiving. ³³ That one of the sons of Aaron who offereth the blood of the thank offering, and the suet, shall have the right shoulder for his portion. ³⁴ For the breast which is dedicated by being laid upon hands, and the shoulder which is dedicated by being set apart, I have taken from the children of Israel; from your sacrifices of thanksgiving; and have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons. It is an everlasting due from the children of Israel.

²⁹ Then having taken the breast, Moses set this, which had been laid on hands before the Lord, apart from the ram of the consecration offering. And it was Moses' portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁴ The dedicated breast, and the dedicated shoulder, which are set apart, you shall eat in a holy place, thou, and thy sons, and thy household with thee, for it hath been given thee as thy due, and to thy sons as their due from the thank offerings of the children of Israel. ¹⁵ The dedicated shoulder, and the dedicated breast, they shall offer on the homage offerings of suet, to be set apart as a dedication before the Lord; and they shall be for thee, and for thy sons, and for thy daughters with thee, an everlasting due, as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁸ Moreover the Lord said to Aaron, Behold I have given you the charge of the separated portions taken from all the dedications made to me by the children of Israel. To thee I have given them for a reward; and to thy sons after thee. ⁹ Let this therefore be your perpetual due from the hallowed dedications of the homage offerings; from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from all their trespass offerings, and from all their sin offerings. Whatever they give me, a portion of the hallowed things shall be for thee and thy sons. ¹⁰ In the holy place of the holies you shall eat them. Every male, namely, thou and thy sons shall eat them. ¹¹ They shall be hallowed to thee. You shall have also a portion from the dedications which the Israelites make by setting apart, and from all the dedications made by being laid on hands; These I have given to thee, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee, as an everlasting due. Every one in thy house, who is clean, may eat these. ¹² Every dedication of oil, and every dedication of wine, every dedication of food of all kinds which they give to the Lord, these I have given to thee.

⁴ Thou shalt also give him the dedications of thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, and the dedications of the fleeces of thy flock.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest [heaven!] And on earth, peace! good will among men!

¹¹ If we have sown for you spiritual things is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?

¹⁴ for he is our peace. He it is, who hath made both one, and who hath demolished the partition wall,

⁷ And I will establish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee.

¹⁶ And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you ¹⁷ and you shall keep this commandment. For on that day I will lead out your host from the land of Egypt; therefore you shall make the observance of that day an everlasting rite to your generations.

⁷ Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service,

¹⁴ You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains, of the new corn, till this day; until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings,

²³ but the Levites themselves are to perform the service of the tabernacle, and to bear their sins, this shall be a perpetual due for their generations, and they shall have no inheritance among the children of Israel.

¹¹ And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who is among you, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked.

¹⁰ therefore there shall be in that day, the root of Jesse, even he who riseth up to rule nations: in him nations will put their trust, and his resting place shall be glorious.

⁹ And when you gather in the harvest of your land, you shall not make a com pleat ingathering of the harvest of your field, nor gather up the gleanings of thy harvest; ¹⁰ nor shalt thou go over thy vineyard a second time, nor gather the straggling clusters of thy vineyard. Thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God;

¹¹ And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who is among you, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked. ¹² And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt keep, and perform, these commandments. ¹³ The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press, ¹⁴ thou shalt rejoice at this thy festival, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who is in thy cities.

¹⁹ When thou reapest thy harvest in the field, if thou hast forgot a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not turn back to take it up; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee, in all the works of thy hands. ²⁰ And when thou gatherest thine olives, thou shalt not turn back to gather what was left behind thee: it shall be for the stranger and the orphan and the widow; ²¹ and thou shalt remember that thou wast a stranger in the land of Egypt; there 21 fore I command thee to do this thing. And when thou gatherest in the vintage, thou shalt not glean after thee. The gleanings shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow;

³ So she went, and coming into a field, gleaned after the reapers. Now she happened to light upon the part of the field which belonged to Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. ⁴ And behold Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, The Lord be with you! And they said to him, The Lord bless thee. ⁵ Then Boaz said to his servant, who was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is that? ⁶ And the servant who was over the reapers said in reply, It is the Moabitess girl, who came with Noemin from the country of Moab. ⁷ She said, Let me, I pray thee, glean, and gather among the sheaves after the reapers. So she came, and hath been on her feet from early in the morning, and is continuing on till evening. She hath not rested a moment in the field.

¹⁵ And when she arose to glean, Boaz gave a charge to his servants, saying, Let her glean among the sheaves, and put her not to the blush. ¹⁶ And when you carry out, carry out for her. Leave also for her some out of the bundles, and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not. ¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out what she had gathered, and it was about an epha of barley. ¹⁸ And she took it up, and went to the city. And when her mother in law saw what she had gathered, and Ruth had taken out, and given her some of the bread that was left after she had been satisfied, ¹⁹ her mother in law said to her, "Where hast thou gleaned to day? And where hast thou been at work? Blessed be he who hath taken notice of thee." And when Ruth told her mother in law where she had been at work, and said, "The man's name is Boaz, with whom I worked to day." ²⁰ Noemin said to her daughter in law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he hath not dropped his kindness to the living, nor to the dead. Then Noemin said to her, The man is near of kin to us. He is one of our nearest relations. ²¹ And Ruth said to her mother in law, Indeed he also said to me, Thou must keep close by my maids till they finish my whole harvest. ²² And Noemin said to her daughter in law Ruth, it is good my daughter that thou hast gone out with his maids, therefore let them not meet thee in another field. ²³ So Ruth kept fast by the maids of Boaz, to glean till they finished the barley and wheat harvest.

¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail; ¹⁷ if I have eaten my morsel alone, and have not shared it with the orphan; ¹⁸ [for from my youth I as a father nourished them, and was their guide from my mother's womb] ¹⁹ If I have seen the naked perishing and have not clothed them; ²⁰ and if the poor have not blessed me, and their shoulders been warmed with the fleece of my lambs; ²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support:

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Happy he who is considerate with regard to the distressed and needy; in time of trouble the Lord will deliver him. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and make him happy in the land, and may he never deliver him into the hands of his enemy! ³ May the Lord support him on his bed of languishing! thou hast made all his bed in this sickness of his.

⁹ He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy; his righteousness shall endure forever. His horn shall be gloriously exalted:

²⁴ There are some who scattering their substance make it more: and some who gather and make it less. ²⁵ A soul is blessed which is altogether sincere: but a passionate man is not respected.

⁷ deal out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor who have no shelter; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and look not scornfully on dependants of thy race; ⁸ then shall thy light break forth like the morning, and thy remedies shall spring up speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord will surround thee.

¹⁰ and from thy soul give bread to the hungry and satisfy an afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness; and thy darkness shall be as the noon day:

⁴¹ But with respect to the things in it, give alms, and behold they are all clean to you.

⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort these brethren to go before to you, and to get your bounty, of which you had given previous notice, completed before hand, that so it may be ready as a bounty, not as an extorted gift. ⁶ Now considering this, that he who soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly, and that he who soweth bountifully will reap bountifully, ⁷ let every one give as he is predisposed in his heart, not with regret, nor reluctance; for God loveth a cheerful giver: ⁸ and God is able to make every bounty redound to your advantage. That you having always a sufficiency in every thing, may abound to every good work, ⁹ [as it is written, "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness shall endure for ever;" ¹⁰ and may He who furnisheth abundantly seed for the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed, and increase the products of your righteousness!] ¹¹ you are enriched in every thing for every act of bounty, which operateth through us to produce thanksgiving to God. ¹² Because the distribution of this religious offering not only supplieth the wants of the saints, but also superaboundeth with many thanksgivings to God;

⁹ and you shall make proclamation with the sound of a trumpet, throughout all your land, in the seventh month, and tenth day of the month; On the day of the atonement, yon shall make proclamation with a trumpet, throughout all your land,

⁹ And when you go out to battle in your land, against your enemies, who have risen up against you, you shall sound these trumpets, that you may be brought into remembrance before the Lord, and saved from your enemies. ¹⁰ In the days of your rejoicings also, and at your festivals, and at your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets, at your whole burnt offerings, and at your sacrifices of thanksgivings; and it shall be a calling of you into remembrance before the Lord; I the Lord your God.

¹ And in the seventh month on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. It shall be to you a day of alarm. ² And you shall offer as whole burnt offerings; for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, one young bull from the herd; one ram, seven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, ³ with their sacrifice; fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for the bull, and two tenths for the ram, ⁴ and a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; ⁵ and a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, ⁶ over and above the whole burnt offerings of the new moon, with their sacrifices and their libations, and the continual whole burnt offering. And their sacrifices, and their libations, shall be according to what is prescribed for them, for a smell of fragrance to the Lord.

²⁸ and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and the sound of clarions and trumpets, answered by nablas and kinyras,

¹³ so as to join in harmonious concert both with those who led the song and those who made responses to thank and praise the Lord; soon as they raised their voice, with trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and said: O praise the Lord, for it is good, For to everlasting his mercy endureth; immediately the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord,

⁶ On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the house of the Lord was not laid;

¹ For the conclusion. On the wine presses. A Psalm by Asaph. Exult with joy for God our helper! Shout triumphantly for the God of Jacob! ² Take a psalm and bring a tympanum; the sweet sounding psaltery with a kithara. ³ Sound the trumpet at the new moon; at the set day of your festival. ⁴ For it is a statute for Israel; a rite established by the God of Jacob;

⁶ With spiral trumpets and the sounding cornet, raise a shout of triumph for the Lord, before the king.

¹³ Therefore gather ye the sons of Israel together one by one. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be sounded and those shall come who are perishing in the land of Assyria, and they who are perishing in Egypt; and shall bow themselves down before the Lord, on this holy mountain in Jerusalem.

⁵² in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for it will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

¹⁶ that the Lord himself, with an authoritative command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall be raised first;

¹⁰ But Aaron shall make an atonement on it; on the horns thereof, once a year. With the blood of the purifying sacrifice he shall purify it throughout their generations. It is a Holy of Holies to the Lord.

¹¹ Then Aaron shall bring forward the young bull for his own sin offering, to make atonement for himself and his household, and shall slay the young bull for his sin offering;

²⁴ And he shall wash his body with water, in a holy place, and put on his robe, and come forth, and offer his own whole burnt offering, and the whole burnt offering of the people, and made atonement for himself and his household, and for the people, as well as for the priests;

²⁹ And this shall be to you an everlasting rite. In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls, and do no work, whether native or the proselyte who dwelleth among you; ³⁰ for on that day he shall make atonement for you, to purify you from all your sins before the Lord, that you may be cleansed. ³¹ This rest shall be to you a sabbath of sabbaths, and you shall humble your souls. It is an everlasting statute.

⁷ And the tenth of this month shall be a solemn day set apart for you, on which you shall afflict your souls, and do no kind of work. ⁸ But you shall offer, as whole burnt offerings for a smell of fragrance for the Lord; as offerings of homage to the Lord, one young bull from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of the first year [you shall see that they be without blemish] ⁹ with their sacrifice; fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for the bull, and two tenths for the ram, ¹⁰ and a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; ¹¹ and a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, over and above the sin offering of the atonement, and the continual whole burnt offering. And the sacrifice of this, and the libation of this, shall be according to what is prescribed, for a smell of fragrance; an offering of homage to the Lord.

²¹ Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Avue, that we might humble ourselves in the presence of our God, and inquire of him the straight road for us, and our children, and all our substance;

¹³ As for me, while they were raising troubles against me I cloathed myself with sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting. Though my prayer is to return into mine own bosom,

⁵ This is not such a fast as I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day. No: though thou shouldst bend thy neck like a hook and lay sackcloth and ashes under thee: even in that case you are not to call it an acceptable fast.

² In those days, I Daniel, had been mourning three weeks. ³ I had not eaten palatable bread, nor had flesh or wine entered my mouth, neither had I anointed myself to the full end of three weeks.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

³⁷ Upon hearing this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, What shall we do? ³⁸ Thereupon Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized to the remission of sins for the name of Jesus Christ, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ For godly sorrow operateth to produce a reformation for salvation, never to be repented of; but the sorrow of this world worketh death. ¹¹ For behold! this very thing; your being affected with a godly sorrow, what solicitude it hath wrought in you! nay, what apologies! what indignation! what fear! what longing desire! what zeal! what avengement! By your whole conduct you have shewn yourselves to be clear in this matter.

⁹ Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into grief; and your joy into con fusion of face.

³⁴ And the making this atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, shall be to you an everlasting statute. It shall be made once a year, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹⁰ and the Lord determined to purify him from this stroke: when his soul shall be given up for a sin offering; of you he shall see a seed which shall prolong their days.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies.

⁹ since with regard to that stone which I have set before Jesus, upon that one stone there are seven eyes; behold I am digging a pit saith the Lord Almighty, and I will feel all the iniquity of this land in one day.

¹⁰ For if we, when enemies, were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more shall we, being reconciled, be saved by his life. ¹¹ And not only so. but we also boast in God. through out Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now obtained this reconciliation,

¹² nor with the blood of goats and young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all, having procured everlasting redemption.

²⁶ else he then must have suffered many a time from the foundation of the world; but now once for all, at the end of the ages, he hath been manifested for the purpose of abolishing sin offerings by the sacrifice of himself.

¹⁰ by which will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once only.

¹⁴ For by one offering he hath made perfect for ever them who are sanctified.

² and he is an atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world.

¹⁰ In this is the love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be an atonement for our sins.

⁶ This Jesus is the Christ, whose coming was pointed out by water and by blood, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood; and the spirit is testifying this. Because the spirit is the truth,

¹⁴ And with regard to the uncircumcised male, the flesh of whose foreskin shall not be circumcised on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from its family, because it hath broken my covenant."

²⁷ On the tenth day of the seventh month is the day of Atonement. It shall be a holy set day for you; and you shall humble your souls, and offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

³² They shall be sabbaths of sabbaths for you, that you may humble your souls. From the ninth of the month, from evening till evening, you shall keep these sabbaths of yours.

² Give orders to the children of Israel, and let them send out of the camp every one who is a leper, and every one who hath a gonorrhea, and every one who is defiled by the dead;

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born.

¹⁶ Now shall they escape who escape from among them? When they shall be on the mountains, I will indeed slay all, every one for his iniquities.

³ and as for me I will myself set my face against that man, and destroy him from among his people, because he hath given of his seed to an Archon, to pollute my holy things, and to profane the name of those who have been hallowed to me.

⁵ I will indeed set my face against that man, and against his family, and destroy him, and all who encourage him, to go a whoring after the Archons, from among their people. ⁶ And with respect to the person who shall follow belly speakers and sorcerers, so as to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and destroy him from among his people.

⁷ but utterly disperse them. In the gates of My people they are bereaved of children; My people are destroyed because of their wickedness.

⁹ And with respect to that prophet when he shall have wandered and spoken; I the Lord have caused that prophet to wander, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

⁵ [J] Alas for them who inhabit the sea coast; the emigrants from Crete! a word of the Lord is against you in Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you from your habitations.

¹⁷ If any one corrupt the temple of God, him God will destroy; for the temple of God is holy.

³¹ This rest shall be to you a sabbath of sabbaths, and you shall humble your souls. It is an everlasting statute.

¹⁷ The sacrifice for God is a contrite spirit. A broken and an humble heart, thou, God, wilt not despise.

¹⁰ When I bowed down my soul with fasting; it furnished occasion for reproaching me. ¹¹ When I clothed myself with sackcloth, I became to them a proverb;

⁵ Let them who sow with tears reap with rapture. ⁶ They went step by step and wept sowing their seed; but let them come tripping with joy, carrying their sheaves.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

¹⁸ I have seen his ways and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true consolation; ¹⁹ peace upon peace to them near and to them far off. So the Lord said, I will heal them.

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul. ⁴ You fast for strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast ye for me as today that by a cry your voice may be heard? ⁵ This is not such a fast as I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day. No: though thou shouldst bend thy neck like a hook and lay sackcloth and ashes under thee: even in that case you are not to call it an acceptable fast. ⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing: ⁷ deal out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor who have no shelter; if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and look not scornfully on dependants of thy race;

³ that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory.

⁴ Happy they who mourn; for they shall be comforted.

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. ³¹ For if we distinguish ourselves, should we not be judged?

³ For we who have believed enter into that rest spoken of in this passage, "So in my indignation I said they shall not enter into My Rest; "namely, That from the works done at the foundation of the, world.

¹¹ Let us therefore use all diligence to enter into This Rest, that none may fall short by a like example of disobedience.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a solemn festival set apart for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. And you shall celebrate this festival to the Lord seven days.

¹³ The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press, ¹⁴ thou shalt rejoice at this thy festival, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who is in thy cities. ¹⁵ Seven days thou shalt celebrate this festival to the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for himself. So when the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy productions, and in all the works of thy hands, and thou shalt be made glad,

⁴ But when they had celebrated the festival of tabernacles, according to what was written, and offered the whole burnt offering day by day in number as prescribed, the set number for every day;

¹⁴ they found it written in the law which the Lord had given in charge to Moses, That the Israelites should dwell in booths at the festival in the seventh month,

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that all who are left of the nations which came against Jerusalem shall come up every year to worship the Lord Almighty and to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not come up to Jerusalem from all the tribes of this land, to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even they shall be added to those. ¹⁸ But if the tribe of Egypt go not up nor come; upon them shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the nations which come not up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. ¹⁹ This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations which decline to come up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles.

¹⁴ Now the Word became incarnate, and dwelt as in a tent among us, and we beheld his glory; a glory as of an only begotten from the father. He was full of grace and truth.

² Now the Jews festival of tabernacles was near,

⁹ By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange land, and dwelt in tents with Isaak and Jacob, who were coheirs with him of the same promise.

¹³ These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

⁷ Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service, ⁸ but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service.

²⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a rest for yon; a memorial of trumpets. ²⁵ It shall be a holy set day for you. You shall not do any sacrificial service, but offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a solemn festival set apart for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. And you shall celebrate this festival to the Lord seven days. ¹³ And you shall bring, for whole burnt offerings; for an offering of homage; for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, on the first day, thirteen young bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, [they shall be without blemish] ¹⁴ with their sacrifices; fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for every one of the thirteen bulls, and two tenths for each of the two rams, ¹⁵ and one tenth for every one of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings with their sacrifices and their libations. ¹⁷ And on the second day, twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ¹⁸ with their sacrifice and their libation, for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to their number agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ¹⁹ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁰ And on the third day, eleven young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²¹ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, according to their number, agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²² and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²³ And on the fourth day, ten young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²⁴ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²⁵ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁶ And on the fifth day, nine young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²⁷ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²⁸ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁹ And on the sixth day, eight young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³⁰ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³¹ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ³² And on the seventh day, seven young bulls; two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³³ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³⁴ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ³⁵ And on the eighth day, you shall close the festival. On that day you shall not do any kind of sacrificial work. ³⁶ But you shall bring for whole burnt offerings; for a smell of fragrance; for offerings of homage to the Lord, one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³⁷ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bull, and the ram, and the lambs, according to the number of them, agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³⁸ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations.

⁸ So Solomon kept the festival at that time seven days, he and all Israel with him, an exceeding great congregation from the bay of Aimath to the torrent of Egypt. ⁹ And on the eighth day he made a finishing feast, for he had celebrated the dedication of the altar with a festival of seven days. ¹⁰ And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent away the people to their abodes, glad, and with cheerful hearts for all the goodness which the Lord had shewn to David, and to Solomon, and to his people Israel. ¹¹ Solomon having thus finished the house of the Lord, and the house of the king, and having been prospered in doing all that came into his heart for the house of the Lord, and his own house,

¹⁸ So he read in the book of the law of God, day by day, from the first day to the last. And when they had kept the festival for seven days, on the eighth day they kept the exod according to custom.

³⁷ It being now the last the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

¹⁶ every male shall, three times in the year, appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; at the festival of unleavened bread, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of tabernacles. Thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty handed. ¹⁷ Every one of you shall bring according to the ability of his hand, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he hath given thee.

¹ Time is for all things: but there is a particular portion of time for every particular affair under heaven;

² And God finished on the sixth day these his works which he made; and on the seventh day he desisted from all these works of his which he made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it; because on it he rested from all these works of his which God had taken occasion to make.

³ Six days thou shalt perform works, but on the seventh day are sabbaths, a solemn rest dedicated to the Lord, thou shalt not do any work. Sabbaths are for the Lord in all your dwellings.

⁶ and to that place you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your oblations, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and your thank offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and flocks;

³ Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, the gold and silver which I kept for myself, behold this I have given for the house of my God, over and above what I provided for the house of the Holies; ⁴ three thousand talents of the gold of Souphir, and seven thousand talents of pure silver, for overlaying therewith the walls of the sanctuary, ⁵ the gold for that to be done with gold, and the silver for that to be done with silver, and for every work to be made by the hand of artists. Now let every one who is so inclined fill his hands this day for the Lord. ⁶ Thereupon the chiefs of families, and the chiefs of the sons of Israel, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the overseers of the king's works and his builders, were liberally disposed, ⁷ and gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents and ten thousand pieces of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron. ⁸ And they who had precious stones gave them for the treasures of the house of the Lord which were under the care of Jeiel the Gersonite.

⁷ Moreover Josias dedicated for the people sheep and lambs and kids, all for the passover, even for all who were in Jerusalem, to the amount of thirty thousand. He dedicated also three thousand beeves, these were of the king's own substance. ⁸ His chiefs also made dedications for the people, and for the priests, and for the Levites. And Chelkias and Zacharias, and Jeiel, the chiefs, gave for the priests of the house of God; they gave for the passover two thousand six hundred sheep, lambs and kids, and three hundred beeves,

⁶⁸ Now some of the chiefs of families when they came to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, offered free will offerings for the house of God, to raise it on its foundations. ⁶⁹ According: to their ability they contributed to the treasure for the work, sixty one thousand mnas of pure gold, and five thousand mnas of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.

²⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a rest for yon; a memorial of trumpets.

³⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days for the Lord.

³⁶ seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service.

¹³ The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press,

¹⁴ they found it written in the law which the Lord had given in charge to Moses, That the Israelites should dwell in booths at the festival in the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should sound trumpets in all their cities and in Jerusalem. Whereupon Esdras said, Go out to the mountains and bring in olive branches, and branches of cypress trees and myrtle branches and palm branches, and the branches of every bushy tree to make booths according to what is written. ¹⁶ Accordingly the people went out and brought them, and made for themselves booths, every man on his house top, and in their court yards, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the streets of the city, even to the gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And when all the congregation; all who had returned from captivity, had made themselves booths and sat therein, because the Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nave even to that day, the joy was great.

¹² The righteous shall bloom like a palm tree; and be multiplied like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹⁰ They indeed shall return and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall crown their head: for on their heads will be praise and rapture; and gladness shall have full possession of them. Pain and sorrow and sighing are fled.

¹⁰ Rejoice Jerusalem! and sing praises therein, all ye who love her! Be exceedingly joyful with her, all ye who mourn for her!

⁸ And the greater part of the multitude threw their mantles on the way, and some cut branches from the trees and strewed them in the way.

¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna! Blessed he, who is coming in the name of the Lord! The king of Israel!

²² So you at present are in grief; but I will see you again and your heart will be made joyful; and that joy of yours no one shall take from you.

¹¹ And not only so. but we also boast in God. through out Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now obtained this reconciliation,

³ for we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice.

⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

⁹ After this I looked and behold! a great multitude, which no one could number, of every nation and of tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes; and palm branches in their hands;

¹⁷ and Jacob marched on to Booths, and there built houses for himself and booths for his cattle, for which cause he called the name of that place Booths.

² And when Balaam raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped by tribes, a spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his parable, and said,

⁵ How beautiful are thy houses, Jacob! Thy tents, Israel!

¹⁰ but have dwelt in tents and have hearkened and done according to all that our father Jonadab commanded us.

¹ For we know that when the earthly house of this dwelling of ours is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

¹³ These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. ¹⁴ For they who speak thus shew plainly that they are seeking their father's country: ¹⁵ Now had these been mindful of that from which they came out, they might have had an opportunity of returning thither: ¹⁶ but now they desire a better; that is a heavenly country; therefore God is not ashamed of them; to be invoked as their God: for he prepared a city for them.

¹⁴ And if at any time hereafter, thy son should ask thee saying, What is the meaning of this? thou shalt say to him, Because with a strong hand the Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt; from the house of bondage;

¹⁰ And Moses gave them a charge on that day saying, At the end of every seven years, at the Solemnity of the release, during the festival of tabernacles, ¹¹ when all Israel assemble, to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; you shall read this law before all Israel, in their hearing. ¹² Let the people be assembled, the men, and the women, and the children, and the proselyte who is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and let them hearken to do all the words of this law. ¹³ And let their children who have not known, hearken, and learn to fear the Lord thy God, all the days they live in the land to which you are going, to cross the Jordan, there to take possession of it.

⁵ Thus he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and established a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children: ⁶ that the succeeding generation; the children to be born, might know it, and rise and tell the same to their children:

²⁴ And when Moses had spoken to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel,

¹ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set days; these are my festivals.

²⁰ For where two or three are assembled for my name I am there in the midst of them.