1 Chronicles 23 Cross References - YLT

¹ And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel, ² and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites; ³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand. ⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah are twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand, ⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' saith David. <sup>6</sup> And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. <sup>7</sup> Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei. <sup>8</sup> Sons of Laadan: the head is Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. <sup>9</sup> Sons of Shimei are Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three; these are heads of the fathers of Laadan. <sup>10</sup> And sons of Shimei are Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these are sons of Shimei, four. <sup>11</sup> And Jahath is the head, and Zizah the second, and Jeush and Beriah have not multiplied sons, and they become the house of a father by one numbering. <sup>12</sup> Sons of Kohath are Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. <sup>13</sup> Sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron is separated for his sanctifying the holy of holies, he and his sons—unto the age, to make perfume before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name—unto the age. <sup>14</sup> As to Moses, the man of God, his sons are called after the tribe of Levi. <sup>15</sup> Sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. <sup>16</sup> Sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head. <sup>17</sup> And sons of Eliezer are Rehabiah the head, and Eliezer had no other sons, and the sons of Rehabiah have multiplied exceedingly. <sup>18</sup> Sons of Izhar: Shelomith the head. <sup>19</sup> Sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. <sup>20</sup> Sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Ishshiah, the second. <sup>21</sup> Sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. <sup>22</sup> And Eleazar dieth, and he had no sons, but daughters, and sons of Kish their brethren take them. <sup>23</sup> Sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth, three.
<sup>24</sup> These are sons of Levi, by the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, by their appointments, in the number of names, by their polls, doing the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from a son of twenty years and upward, <sup>25</sup> for David said, `Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given rest to His people, and He doth tabernacle in Jerusalem unto the age;' ²⁶ and also of the Levites, `None are to bear the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service;' ²⁷ for by the last words of David they took the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward, ²⁸ for their station is at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God, ²⁹ and for the bread of the arrangement, and for fine flour for present, and for the thin unleavened cakes, and for the work of the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all liquid measure and solid measure; ³⁰ and to stand, morning by morning, to give thanks, and to give praise to Jehovah, and so at evening; ³¹ and for all the burnt-offerings—burnt-offerings to Jehovah for sabbaths, for new moons, and for appointed seasons, by number, according to the ordinance upon them continually, before Jehovah. ³² And they have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron, their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

⁸ and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

²⁹ and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

¹ And king David is old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,

³⁰ surely as I sware to thee by Jehovah, God of Israel, saying, Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne in my stead; surely so I do this day.'

³³ And the king saith to them, `Take with you the servants of your lord, and ye have caused Solomon my son to ride on mine own mule, and caused him to go down unto Gihon, <sup>34</sup> and anointed him there hath Zadok the priest—and Nathan the prophet—for king over Israel, and ye have blown with a trumpet, and said, Let king Solomon live; <sup>35</sup> and ye have come up after him, and he hath come in and hath sat on my throne, and he doth reign in my stead, and him I have appointed to be leader over Israel, and over Judah.' <sup>36</sup> And Benaiah son of Jehoiada answereth the king, and saith, `Amen! so doth Jehovah, God of my lord the king, say; ³⁷ as Jehovah hath been with my lord the king, so is He with Solomon, and doth make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.' ³⁸ And Zadok the priest goeth down, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethite, and the Pelethite, and they cause Solomon to ride on the mule of king David, and cause him to go unto Gihon, ³⁹ and Zadok the priest taketh the horn of oil out of the tent, and anointeth Solomon, and they blow with a trumpet, and all the people say, `Let king Solomon live.'

⁵ and out of all my sons—for many sons hath Jehovah given to me—He also fixeth on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel,

²² And they eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and cause Solomon son of David to reign a second time, and anoint him before Jehovah for leader, and Zadok for priest.
²³ And Solomon sitteth on the throne of Jehovah for king instead of David his father, and prospereth, and all Israel hearken unto him, ²⁴ and all the heads, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David have given a hand under Solomon the king; ²⁵ and Jehovah maketh Solomon exceedingly great before the eyes of all Israel, and putteth upon him the honour of the kingdom that hath not been on any king over Israel before him.

²⁸ and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.

²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

² and Joshua calleth for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and saith unto them, `I have become old; I have entered into days;

¹ And Joshua gathereth all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and calleth for the elders of Israel, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and they station themselves before God.

¹ And David consulteth with the heads of the thousands, and of the hundreds, every leader,

¹ And David assembleth all the heads of Israel, heads of the tribes, and heads of the courses who are serving the king, and heads of the thousands, and heads of the hundreds, and heads of all the substance and possessions of the king, and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty ones, even to every mighty one of valour—unto Jerusalem.

²⁹ And the king sendeth and gathereth all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem, ³⁰ and the king goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and every man of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, even all the people, from great even unto small, and he readeth in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that is found in the house of Jehovah.

² `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers; <sup>3</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting. <sup>4</sup> `This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies: ⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony; ⁶ and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves. ⁷ `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it, <sup>8</sup> and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves, <sup>9</sup> and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it; <sup>10</sup> and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar. <sup>11</sup> `And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves; ¹² and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put them unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put them on the bar, ¹³ and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple; ¹⁴ and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves: ¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished—his sons also—covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting. <sup>16</sup> `And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, is the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.' ¹⁷ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ `Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites; <sup>19</sup> but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: —Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden, <sup>20</sup> and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'
<sup>21</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>22</sup> `Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families; ²³ from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting. ²⁴ `This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve—and for burden, <sup>25</sup> and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger skin which is on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting, <sup>26</sup> and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the vessels of their service, and all that is made for them—and they have served. <sup>27</sup> `By the command of Aaron and his sons is all the service of the sons of the Gershonite in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye have laid a charge on them concerning the charge of all their burden. ²⁸ This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge is under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ `The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them; <sup>30</sup> from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to the host, to do the service of the tent of meeting. <sup>31</sup> `And this is the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, ³² and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, of all their vessels, and of all their service; and by name ye do number the vessels of the charge of their burden. ³³ `This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'
³⁴ And Moses numbereth—Aaron also, and the princes of the company—the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ³⁵ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ³⁶ and their numbered ones, by their families, are two thousand seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ These are those numbered of the families of the Kohathite, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses. ³⁸ And those numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ³⁹ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the command of Jehovah. ⁴² And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, ⁴³ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ even their numbered ones, by their families, are three thousand and two hundred. ⁴⁵ These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses. ⁴⁶ All those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also, and the princes of Israel—of the Levites, by their families, and by the house of their fathers, ⁴⁷ from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to do the work of the service, even the service of burden in the tent of meeting, ⁴⁸ even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty; ⁴⁹ by the command of Jehovah hath one numbered them, by the hand of Moses, each man by his service, and by his burden, with his numbered ones, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

²⁴ These are sons of Levi, by the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, by their appointments, in the number of names, by their polls, doing the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from a son of twenty years and upward,

¹⁸ `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people—a righteous judgment.

⁸ `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within thy gates—then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, ⁹ and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment, ¹⁰ and thou hast done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to thee (they of that place which Jehovah doth choose; and thou hast observed to do according to all that they direct thee.

⁴⁸ And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

²⁸ And some of them are over the vessels of service, for by number they bring them in, and by number they take them out. ²⁹ And some of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the sons of the priests are mixing the mixture for spices. ³¹ And Mattithiah, of the Levites (he is the first-born to Shallum the Korahite), is in office over the work of the pans. ³² And of the sons of the Kohathite, some of their brethren are over the bread of the arrangement, to prepare it sabbath by sabbath.

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

²⁰ And of the Levites, Ahijah is over the treasures of the house of God, even for the treasures of the holy things. ²¹ Sons of Laadan: sons of the Gershonite, of Laadan, heads of the fathers of Laadan the Gershonite: Jehieli. ²² Sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Jehovah, ²³ for the Amramite, for the Izharite, for the Hebronite, for the Uzzielite. ²⁴ And Shebuel son of Gershom, son of Moses, is president over the treasures. ²⁵ And his brethren, of Eliezer, are Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son. ²⁶ This Shelomith and his brethren are over all the treasures of the holy things, that David the king, and heads of the fathers, even heads of thousands, and of hundreds, and heads of the host, sanctified; ²⁷ from the battles, even from the spoil they sanctified to strengthen the house of Jehovah;

²⁹ Of the Izharite, Chenaniah and his sons are for the outward work over Israel, for officers and for judges. ³⁰ Of the Hebronite, Hashabiah and his brethren, sons of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, are over the inspection of Israel, beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Jehovah, and for the service of the king. ³¹ Of the Hebronite, Jerijah is the head, of the Hebronite, according to his generations, for the fathers—in the fortieth year of the reign of David they have been sought out, and there are found among them mighty ones of valour, in Jazer of Gilead—

⁸ And also in Jerusalem hath Jehoshaphat appointed of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the heads of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah, and for strife; and they turn back to Jerusalem,

⁸ And in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those coming from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appoint the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, to overlook the work of the house of Jehovah. ⁹ And Jeshua standeth, and his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah together, to overlook those doing the work in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, and their sons and their brethren the Levites.

⁹ And Joel son of Zichri is inspector over them, and Judah son of Senuah is over the city—second.

²² And the overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem is Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micha: of the sons of Asaph, the singers are over-against the work of the house of God,

⁷ For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he is .

²⁸ `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

¹² and the king maketh the almug-trees a support for the house of Jehovah, and for the house of the king, and harps and psalteries for singers; there have not come such almug-trees, nor have there been seen such unto this day.

³¹ And these are they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark, ³² and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service. ³³ And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel, ³⁴ son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, ³⁵ son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, ³⁶ son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, ³⁷ son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, ³⁸ son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel. ³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who is standing on his right—Asaph, son of Berachiah, son of Shimea, ⁴⁰ son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchiah, ⁴¹ son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, ⁴² son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, ⁴³ son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. ⁴⁴ And sons of Merari, their brethren, are on the left. Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, ⁴⁵ son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶ son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer, ⁴⁷ son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. ⁴⁸ And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

¹⁷ And the gatekeepers are Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren—Shallum is the head; ¹⁸ and hitherto they are at the gate of the king eastward; they are the gatekeepers for the companies of the sons of Levi. ¹⁹ And Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, are over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers are over the camp of Jehovah, keepers of the entrance; ²⁰ and Phinehas son of Eleazar hath been leader over them formerly; Jehovah is with him. ²¹ Zechariah son of Meshelemiah is gatekeeper at the opening of the tent of meeting. ²² All of those who are chosen for gatekeepers at the thresholds are two hundred and twelve; they are in their villages, by their genealogy; they whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their office. ²³ And they and their sons are over the gates of the house of Jehovah, even of the house of the tent, by watches. ²⁴ At four sides are the gatekeepers, east, west, north, and south. ²⁵ And their brethren in their villages are to come in for seven days from time to time with these. ²⁶ For in office are the four chiefs of the gatekeepers, they are Levites, and they have been over the chambers, and over the treasuries of the house of God, ²⁷ and round about the house of God they lodge, for on them is the watch, and they are over the opening, even morning by morning.

³³ And these who sing, heads of fathers of the Levites, in the chambers, are free, for by day and by night they are over them in the work.

¹⁶ And David saith to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy. ¹⁷ And the Levites appoint Heman son of Joel, and of his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah; ¹⁸ and with them their brethren, the seconds in rank, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah; and Obed-Edom and Jeiel the gatekeepers; ¹⁹ and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to sound, ²⁰ and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jeheil, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries besides virgins, ²¹ and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps, on the octave, to oversee. ²² And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, is over the burden; he instructeth about the burden, for he is intelligent. ²³ And Berechiah and Elkanah are gatekeepers for the ark. ²⁴ And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, are blowing with trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah are gatekeepers for the ark.

³⁸ both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers,

⁴¹ And with them are Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age is His kindness, ⁴² and with them—Heman and Jeduthun—are trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun are at the gate.

¹ And David and the heads of the host separate for service, of the sons of Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who are prophesying with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen is according to their service. ² Of sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, are by the side of Asaph, who is prophesying by the side of the king. ³ Of Jeduthun: sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, Shisshah, are by the side of their father Jeduthun; with a harp he is prophesying, for giving of thanks and of praise to Jehovah. ⁴ Of Heman: sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ all these are sons of Heman—seer of the king in the things of God—to lift up a horn; and God giveth to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these are by the side of their father in the song of the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; by the side of the king are Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman. ⁷ And their number, with their brethren—taught in the song of Jehovah, all who are intelligent—is two hundred, eighty and eight.

¹ For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites is Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph; ² and to Meshelemiah are sons, Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, ³ Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. ⁴ And to Obed-Edom are sons, Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God hath blessed him. ⁶ And to Shemaiah his son have sons been born, who are ruling throughout the house of their father, for they are mighty of valour. ⁷ Sons of Shemaiah are Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad; his brethren are sons of valour, Elihu and Semachiah, ⁸ all these are of the sons of Obed-Edom; they, and their sons, and their brethren, men of valour with might for service, are sixty and two of Obed-Edom. ⁹ And to Meshelemiah are sons and brethren, sons of valour, eighteen; ¹⁰ and to Hosah, of the sons of Merari, are sons: Shimri the head (though he was not first-born, yet his father setteth him for head), ¹¹ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah are thirteen. ¹² According to these are the courses of the gatekeepers; to the heads of the mighty ones are charges over-against their brethren, to minister in the house of Jehovah,

¹⁴ And he establisheth, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service, and of the Levites over their charges, to praise and to minister over-against the priests, according to the matter of a day in its day, and the gatekeepers in their courses at gate and gate, for so is the command of David the man of God.

¹⁹ And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites, and of the sons of the Korhites, rise to give praise to Jehovah, God of Israel, with a loud voice on high.
²⁰ And they rise early in the morning, and go out to the wilderness of Tekoa, and in their going out Jehoshaphat hath stood and saith, `Hear me, O Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, remain stedfast in Jehovah your God, and be stedfast; remain stedfast in His prophets, and prosper.' <sup>21</sup> And he taketh counsel with the people, and appointeth singers to Jehovah, and those giving praise to the honour of holiness, in the going out before the armed men, and saying, `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, for to the age is His kindness.'

²⁵ And he appointeth the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Jehovah is the command, by the hand of His prophets; ²⁶ and the Levites stand with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

¹⁵ And the singers, sons of Asaph, are on their station, according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun seer of the king, and the gate keepers are at gate and gate; it is not for them to turn aside from off their service, for their brethren the Levites have prepared for them.

⁷ And there go up of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

⁷³ And they dwell—the priests, and the Levites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel—in their cities, and the seventh month cometh, and the sons of Israel are in their cities.

⁷ Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains are in Thee!

⁵ Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi are a hundred and thirty and seven years. ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon are Libni, and Shimi, as to their families. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath are Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath are a hundred and thirty and three years. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi: these are families of Levi, as to their births. ²⁰ And Amram taketh Jochebed his aunt to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram are a hundred and thirty and seven years. ²¹ And sons of Izhar are Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. ²² And sons of Uzziel are Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. ²³ And Aaron taketh Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ²⁴ And sons of Korah are Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are families of the Korhite.

⁵⁷ And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite. ⁵⁸ These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram,

¹ Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁶ Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

¹ And to the sons of Aaron are their courses: sons of Aaron are Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,

¹ For the courses of the gatekeepers: of the Korhites is Meshelemiah son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph;

²⁵ And he appointeth the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Jehovah is the command, by the hand of His prophets;

² And Hezekiah appointeth the courses of the priests, and of the Levites, by their courses, each according to his service, of the priests and of the Levites, for burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to give praise in the gates of the camps of Jehovah.

¹⁰ And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,

¹⁸ and they have established the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, over the service of God that is in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

¹⁷ The sons of Gershon are Libni, and Shimi, as to their families.

¹⁷ And these are names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁸ And sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. ¹⁹ Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are families of the Levite according to their fathers; ²⁰ of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

⁷ Of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty.

²¹ Sons of Laadan: sons of the Gershonite, of Laadan, heads of the fathers of Laadan the Gershonite: Jehieli.

³³ And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel, ³⁴ son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,

¹¹ And David calleth to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

¹⁷ And the Levites appoint Heman son of Joel, and of his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah; ¹⁸ and with them their brethren, the seconds in rank, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah; and Obed-Edom and Jeiel the gatekeepers;

²⁰ and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jeheil, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries besides virgins, ²¹ and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps, on the octave, to oversee.

¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath are Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath are a hundred and thirty and three years.

²⁷ And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite.

⁵⁸ These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram,

² And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

²⁰ And Amram taketh Jochebed his aunt to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram are a hundred and thirty and seven years.

¹ `And thou, bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for his being priest to Me, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, sons of Aaron; <sup>2</sup> and thou hast made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for honour and for beauty; <sup>3</sup> and thou—thou dost speak unto all the wise of heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they have made the garments of Aaron to sanctify him for his being priest to Me. <sup>4</sup> `And these are the garments which they make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and an upper robe, and an embroidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle; yea, they have made holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons, for his being priest to Me. ⁵ `And they take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the linen,
<sup>6</sup> and have made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of a designer; <sup>7</sup> it hath two shoulders joining at its two ends, and it is joined. <sup>8</sup> `And the girdle of his ephod which is on him, according to its work, is of the same, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. ⁹ `And thou hast taken the two shoham stones, and hast opened on them the names of the sons of Israel; <sup>10</sup> six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the second stone, according to their births; <sup>11</sup> the work of an engraver in stone, openings of a signet, thou dost open the two stones by the names of the sons of Israel; turned round, embroidered with gold, thou dost make them. <sup>12</sup> `And thou hast set the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod—stones of memorial to the sons of Israel—and Aaron hath borne their names before Jehovah, on his two shoulders, for a memorial. ¹³ `And thou hast made embroidered things of gold, ¹⁴ and two chains of pure gold, wreathed work thou dost make them, work of thick bands, and thou hast put the thick chains on the embroidered things.

³³ and they have eaten those things by which there is atonement to consecrate their hand, to sanctify them; and a stranger doth not eat—for they are holy; ³⁴ and if there be left of the flesh of the consecration or of the bread till the morning, then thou hast burned that which is left with fire; it is not eaten, for it is holy. ³⁵ `And thou hast done thus to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days thou dost consecrate their hand; ³⁶ and a bullock, a sin-offering, thou dost prepare daily for the atonements, and thou hast atoned for the altar, in thy making atonement on it, and hast anointed it to sanctify it; ³⁷ seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy.

⁴⁴ `And I have sanctified the tent of meeting, and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I sanctify for being priests to Me,

⁶ and thou hast put it before the vail, which is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy-seat which is over the testimony, whither I am met with thee. ⁷ `And Aaron hath made perfume on it, perfume of spices, morning by morning; in his making the lamps right he doth perfume it, <sup>8</sup> and in Aaron's causing the lamps to go up between the evenings, he doth perfume it; a continual perfume before Jehovah to your generations. <sup>9</sup> `Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it; ¹⁰ and Aaron hath made atonement on its horns, once in a year, by the blood of the sin-offering of atonements; once in a year doth he make atonement for it, to your generations; it is most holy to Jehovah.'

³⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part; <sup>35</sup> and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy; <sup>36</sup> and thou hast beaten some of it small, and hast put of it before the testimony, in the tent of meeting, whither I am met with thee; most holy it is to you. <sup>37</sup> `As to the perfume which thou makest, with its proper proportion ye do not make to yourselves, holy it is to thee to Jehovah; ³⁸ a man who maketh any like it—to be refreshed by it—hath even been cut off from his people.'

⁹ and hast taken the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and hallowed it, and all its vessels, and it hath been holy; ¹⁰ and thou hast anointed the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctified the altar, and the altar hath been most holy; ¹¹ and thou hast anointed the laver and its base, and sanctified it. ¹² `And thou hast brought near Aaron and his sons unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and hast bathed them with water; <sup>13</sup> and thou hast clothed Aaron with the holy garments, and anointed him, and sanctified him, and he hath acted as priest to Me. <sup>14</sup> `And his sons thou dost bring near, and hast clothed them with coats, ¹⁵ and anointed them as thou hast anointed their father, and they have acted as priests to Me, and their anointing hath been to be to them for a priesthood age-during, to their generations.'

²² And Aaron lifteth up his hand towards the people, and blesseth them, and cometh down from making the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.
²³ And Moses goeth in—Aaron also—unto the tent of meeting, and they come out, and bless the people, and the honour of Jehovah appeareth unto all the people;

¹ And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them; ² and fire goeth out from before Jehovah, and consumeth them, and they die before Jehovah.

¹⁰ so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

¹⁷ `Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the holy place, for it is most holy—and it He hath given to you to take away the iniquity of the company, to make atonement for them before Jehovah? ¹⁸ lo, its blood hath not been brought in unto the holy place within; eating ye do eat it in the holy place, as I have commanded.'

¹¹ `And Aaron hath brought near the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own, and hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and hath slaughtered the bullock of the sin-offering which is his own, <sup>12</sup> and hath taken the fulness of the censer of burning coals of fire from off the altar, from before Jehovah, and the fulness of his hands of thin spice-perfume, and hath brought it within the vail; <sup>13</sup> and he hath put the perfume on the fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of the perfume hath covered the mercy-seat which is on the testimony, and he dieth not. <sup>14</sup> `And he hath taken of the blood of the bullock, and hath sprinkled with his finger on the front of the mercy-seat eastward; even at the front of the mercy-seat he doth sprinkle seven times of the blood with his finger.
¹⁵ `And he hath slaughtered the goat of the sin-offering which is the people's, and hath brought in its blood unto the inside of the vail, and hath done with its blood as he hath done with the blood of the bullock, and hath sprinkled it on the mercy-seat, and at the front of the mercy-seat, <sup>16</sup> and he hath made atonement for the sanctuary because of the uncleanness of the sons of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins; and so he doth for the tent of meeting which is tabernacling with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. <sup>17</sup> `And no man is in the tent of meeting in his going in to make atonement in the sanctuary, till his coming out; and he hath made atonement for himself, and for his house, and for all the assembly of Israel. ¹⁸ `And he hath gone out unto the altar which is before Jehovah, and hath made atonement for it; and he hath taken of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and hath put on the horns of the altar round about; ¹⁹ and he hath sprinkled on it of the blood with his finger seven times, and hath cleansed it, and hath hallowed it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel.

³² `And the priest whom he doth anoint, and whose hand he doth consecrate to act as priest instead of his father, hath made atonement, and hath put on the linen garments, the holy garments; ³³ and he hath made atonement for the holy sanctuary; and for the tent of meeting, even for the altar he doth make atonement; yea, for the priests, and for all the people of the assembly he maketh atonement.

² `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the sons of Israel; and thou hast said unto them, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, <sup>3</sup> Any man of the house of Israel who slaughtereth ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who slaughtereth at the outside of the camp, <sup>4</sup> and unto the opening of the tent of meeting hath not brought it in to bring near an offering to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood is reckoned to that man—blood he hath shed—and that man hath been cut off from the midst of his people; <sup>5</sup> so that the sons of Israel do bring in their sacrifices which they are sacrificing on the face of the field, yea, they have brought them in to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and they have sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings to Jehovah with them. <sup>6</sup> `And the priest hath sprinkled the blood upon the altar of Jehovah, at the opening of the tent of meeting, and hath made perfume with the fat for sweet fragrance to Jehovah;

²³ `Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus ye do bless the sons of Israel, saying to them, <sup>24</sup> `Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; ²⁵ `Jehovah cause His face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; <sup>26</sup> `Jehovah lift up His countenance upon thee, and appoint for thee—peace. ²⁷ `And they have put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I—I do bless them.'

¹⁶ And Moses saith unto Korah, `Thou and all thy company, be ye before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; ¹⁷ and take ye each his censer, and ye have put on them perfume, and brought near before Jehovah, each his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and thou and Aaron, each his censer.' ¹⁸ And they take each his censer, and put on them fire, and lay on them perfume, and they stand at the opening of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume. ³⁶ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ `Say unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, and he lifteth up the censers from the midst of the burning, and the fire scatter thou yonder, for they have been hallowed, ³⁸ even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.' ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar— ⁴⁰ a memorial to the sons of Israel, so that a stranger who is not of the seed of Aaron doth not draw near to make a perfume before Jehovah, and is not as Korah, and as his company, —as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses to him.

⁴⁶ and Moses saith unto Aaron, `Take the censer, and put on it fire from off the altar, and place perfume, and go, hasten unto the company, and make atonement for them, for the wrath hath gone out from the presence of Jehovah—the plague hath begun.' ⁴⁷ And Aaron taketh as Moses hath spoken, and runneth unto the midst of the assembly, and lo, the plague hath begun among the people; and he giveth the perfume, and maketh atonement for the people,

¹ And Jehovah saith unto Aaron, `Thou, and thy sons, and the house of thy father with thee, do bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou, and thy sons with thee, do bear the iniquity of your priesthood;

³ `And they have kept thy charge, and the charge of all the tent; only, unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar they do not come near, and they die not, either they or you; <sup>4</sup> and they have been joined unto thee, and have kept the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and a stranger doth not come near unto you; <sup>5</sup> and ye have kept the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar, and there is no more wrath against the sons of Israel. <sup>6</sup> `And I, lo, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel; to you a gift they are given by Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting; ⁷ and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'
⁸ And Jehovah speaketh unto Aaron: `And I, lo, I have given to thee the charge of My heave-offerings, of all the hallowed things of the sons of Israel—to thee I have given them for the anointing, and to thy sons, by a statute age-during.

⁵⁹ and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

⁵ `And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh—for on them hath Jehovah thy God fixed to serve Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth is every strife, and every stroke—

²⁸ even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

³ And sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

¹⁸ and they stand up against Uzziah the king, and say to him, `Not for thee, O Uzziah, to make perfume to Jehovah, but for priests, sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to make perfume; go forth from the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, and it is not to thee for honour from Jehovah God.' ¹⁹ And Uzziah is wroth, and in his hand is a censer to make perfume, and in his being wroth with the priests—the leprosy hath risen in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Jehovah, from beside the altar of perfume. ²⁰ And Azariah the head priest looketh unto him, and all the priests, and lo, he is leprous in his forehead, and they hasten him thence, and also he himself hath hastened to go out, for Jehovah hath plagued him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king is a leper unto the day of his death, and inhabiteth a separate house—a leper, for he hath been cut off from the house of Jehovah, and Jotham his son is over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.

⁶ Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those proclaiming His name. They are calling unto Jehovah, And He doth answer them.

¹⁶ And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

⁹ according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,

² and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God—

¹⁵ and when God was well pleased—having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace—

⁴ and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

³ and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne,

¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,

²³ for the Amramite, for the Izharite, for the Hebronite, for the Uzzielite. ²⁴ And Shebuel son of Gershom, son of Moses, is president over the treasures. ²⁵ And his brethren, of Eliezer, are Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou—Thou hast been, To us—in generation and generation,

²² and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, `A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'

²⁰ and Moses taketh his wife, and his sons, and causeth them to ride on the ass, and turneth back to the land of Egypt, and Moses taketh the rod of God in his hand.

³ and her two sons, of whom the name of the one is Gershom, for he said, `a sojourner I have been in a strange land:' <sup>4</sup> and the name of the other is Eliezer, for, `the God of my father is for my help, and doth deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh.'

²⁰ And for the sons of Levi who are left: for sons of Amram, Shubael; for sons of Shubael: Jehdeiah.

²⁰ at the thirteenth to Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

²⁴ And Shebuel son of Gershom, son of Moses, is president over the treasures. ²⁵ And his brethren, of Eliezer, are Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

²² For the Izharite: Shelomoth; for sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.

²⁶ This Shelomith and his brethren are over all the treasures of the holy things, that David the king, and heads of the fathers, even heads of thousands, and of hundreds, and heads of the host, sanctified;

⁹ Of sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren, eighty.

¹² Sons of Kohath are Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

²³ And sons of Jeriah: Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

¹⁹ And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi: these are families of Levi, as to their births. ²⁰ of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

³⁰ Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

⁶ And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²⁶ sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Jaaziah: Beno; ²⁷ sons of Merari: of Jaaziah: Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. ²⁸ For Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons; ²⁹ for Kish: sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. ³⁰ And sons of Mushi are Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth; these are sons of the Levites, for the house of their fathers,

⁶ this is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives; ⁷ and the inheritance of the sons of Israel doth not turn round from tribe unto tribe; for each to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers, do the sons of Israel cleave. ⁸ `And every daughter possessing an inheritance, of the tribes of the sons of Israel, is to one of the family of the tribe of her father for a wife, so that the sons of Israel possess each the inheritance of his fathers,

²⁸ For Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons;

³⁰ And sons of Mushi are Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth; these are sons of the Levites, for the house of their fathers,

² `Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their polls; ³ from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron; ⁴ and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

¹⁸ and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

²² Of the sons of Simeon—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host—

³² These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

¹⁵ `Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

⁴⁷ thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll—by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;

³ from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

²⁴ `This is that which is the Levites': from a son of five and twenty years and upward he doth go in to serve the host in the service of the tent of meeting,

¹⁷ And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle.

²¹ And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the others have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.

³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand.

²⁷ for by the last words of David they took the number of the sons of Levi from a son of twenty years and upward,

⁸ And in the second year of their coming in unto the house of God, to Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those coming from the captivity to Jerusalem, and they appoint the Levites from a son of twenty years and upward, to overlook the work of the house of Jehovah.

¹ And it cometh to pass, when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah hath given rest to him round about, from all his enemies,

¹¹ even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house.

¹³ I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'

²⁷ But, is it true? —God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!

¹⁸ `Is not Jehovah your God with you? yea, He hath given rest to you round about, for He hath given into my hand the inhabitants of the land, and subdued hath been the land before His people.

¹¹ Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,

¹⁶ Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.

¹⁸ Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.

¹³ For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired it for a seat to Himself, ¹⁴ This is My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.

²¹ Blessed is Jehovah from Zion, Inhabiting Jerusalem—praise ye Jah!

¹⁸ Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, Are for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.

²¹ And I have declared their blood innocent, That I did not declare innocent, And Jehovah is dwelling in Zion!

³ Thus said Jehovah: I have turned back unto Zion, And I have dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem, And Jerusalem hath been called `The city of truth,' And the mountain of Jehovah of Hosts, `The holy mountain.'

¹⁶ and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—`I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

⁹ because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

⁵ that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;

¹⁵ `And Aaron hath finished—his sons also—covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

⁴⁹ by the command of Jehovah hath one numbered them, by the hand of Moses, each man by his service, and by his burden, with his numbered ones, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

⁹ and to the sons of Kohath he hath not given, for the service of the sanctuary is on them: on the shoulder they bear.

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

¹ And these are the last words of David: —`The affirmation of David son of Jesse—And the affirmation of the man raised up—Concerning the Anointed of the God of Jacob, And the Sweetness of the Songs of Israel:

²⁰ The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.

⁶ `Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him, ⁷ and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle; ⁸ and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle; ⁹ and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

⁵ And he buildeth against the wall of the house a couch round about, even the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and maketh sides round about.

²⁸ And some of them are over the vessels of service, for by number they bring them in, and by number they take them out. ²⁹ And some of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

¹⁷ and Benaiah son of Jehoiada is over the Cherethite and the Pelethite, and the elder sons of David are at the hand of the king.

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

¹³ and for the courses of the priests and of the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all vessels of service of the house of Jehovah,

⁵ And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,

¹⁸ And they come in within unto Hezekiah the king, and say, `We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah, and the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the arrangement, and all its vessels, ¹⁹ and all the vessels that king Ahaz cast away in his reign—in his trespass—we have prepared and sanctified, and lo, they are before the altar of Jehovah.'

¹¹ And Hezekiah saith to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah, and they prepare,

³ and saith to the Levites—who are teaching all Israel—who are sanctified to Jehovah, `Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built; it is not to you a burden on the shoulder. `Now, serve Jehovah your God, and His people Israel, ⁴ and prepare, by the house of your fathers, according to your courses, by the writing of David king of Israel, and by the writing of Solomon his son, ⁵ and stand in the sanctuary, by the divisions of the house of the fathers of your brethren, sons of the people, and the portion of the house of a father of the Levites, ⁶ and slaughter the passover-offering and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.'

¹¹ and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping; ¹² and they turn aside the burnt-offering, to put them by the divisions of the house of the fathers of the sons of the people, to bring near to Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses—and so to the oxen. ¹³ And they cook the passover with fire, according to the ordinance, and the sanctified things they have cooked in pots, and in kettles, and in pans—for all the sons of the people. ¹⁴ And afterward they have prepared for themselves, and for the priests: for the priests, sons of Aaron, are in the offering up of the burnt-offering and of the fat till night; and the Levites have prepared for themselves, and for the priests, sons of Aaron.

²⁹ watch, and keep, till ye weigh before the heads of the priests, and of the Levites, and the heads of the fathers of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.'

²⁴ And Pethahiah son of Meshezabeel, of the sons of Zerah, son of Judah, is by the hand of the king, for every matter of the people.

⁴ And before this Eliashib the priest, appointed over chambers of the house of our God, is a relation of Tobiah, ⁵ and he maketh for him a great chamber, and there they were formerly putting the present, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithe of the corn, the new wine, and the oil—the commanded thing of the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers—and the heave-offering of the priests.

⁹ and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

⁴ and bring them into the house of Jehovah, unto the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God, that is near to the chamber of the princes, that is above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold;

⁶ And the side-chambers are side-chamber by side-chamber, three and thirty times; and they are entering into the wall—which the house hath for the side-chambers all round about—to be taken hold of, and they are not taken hold of by the wall of the house. ⁷ And a broad place and a turning place still upwards are to the side-chambers, for the turning round of the house is still upwards all round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house is upwards, and so the lower one goeth up unto the higher by the midst. ⁸ And I have looked at the house, the height all round about: the foundations of the side-chambers are the fulness of the reed, six cubits by the joining. ⁹ The breadth of the wall that is to the side-chamber at the outside is five cubits; and that which is left is the place of the side-chambers that are to the house. ¹⁰ And between the chambers is a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house, all round about. ¹¹ And the opening of the side-chamber is to the place left, one opening northward, and one opening southward, and the breadth of the place that is left is five cubits all round about.

²⁶ And narrow windows and palm-trees are on this side, and on that side, at the sides of the porch, and the side-chambers of the house, and the thick places.

³ Over-against the twenty cubits that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that is to the outer court, is gallery over-against gallery, in the three storeys .

¹³ And he saith unto me, `The north chambers, the south chambers, that are at the front of the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests (who are near to Jehovah) eat the most holy things, there they place the most holy things, and the present, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, for the place is holy.

³⁰ and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.

⁴ `And when thou bringest near an offering, a present baked in an oven, it is of unleavened cakes of flour mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil. <sup>5</sup> `And if thine offering is a present made on the girdel, it is of flour, mixed with oil, unleavened; ⁶ divide thou it into parts, and thou hast poured on it oil; it is a present. ⁷ `And if thine offering is a present made on the frying-pan, of flour with oil it is made,

²⁰ `This is an offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they bring near to Jehovah in the day of his being anointed; a tenth of the ephah of flour for a continual present, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening; <sup>21</sup> on a girdel with oil it is made—fried thou dost bring it in; baked pieces of the present thou dost bring near, a sweet fragrance to Jehovah. <sup>22</sup> `And the priest who is anointed in his stead, from among his sons, doth make it, —a statute age-during of Jehovah: it is completely perfumed; ²³ and every present of a priest is a whole burnt-offering; it is not eaten.'

⁹ and every present which is baked in an oven, and every one done in a frying-pan, and on a girdel, is the priest's who is bringing it near; it is his;

³⁵ `Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure; ³⁶ righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁵ `And thou hast taken flour, and hast baked twelve cakes with it, two tenth deals are in the one cake, <sup>6</sup> and thou hast set them two ranks (six in the rank) on the pure table before Jehovah, <sup>7</sup> and thou hast put on the rank pure frankincense, and it hath been to the bread for a memorial, a fire-offering to Jehovah. <sup>8</sup> `On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel—a covenant age-during; ⁹ and it hath been to Aaron, and to his sons, and they have eaten it in the holy place, for it is most holy to him, from the fire-offerings of Jehovah—a statute age-during.'

⁵⁰ from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five—by the shekel of the sanctuary;

⁴⁸ And Solomon maketh all the vessels that are in the house of Jehovah: the altar of gold, and the table—on which is the bread of the Presence—of gold,

²⁹ And some of them are appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. ³⁰ And some of the sons of the priests are mixing the mixture for spices. ³¹ And Mattithiah, of the Levites (he is the first-born to Shallum the Korahite), is in office over the work of the pans. ³² And of the sons of the Kohathite, some of their brethren are over the bread of the arrangement, to prepare it sabbath by sabbath. ³³ And these who sing, heads of fathers of the Levites, in the chambers, are free, for by day and by night they are over them in the work. ³⁴ These heads of the fathers of the Levites throughout their generations are heads. These have dwelt in Jerusalem.

¹¹ and are making perfume to Jehovah, burnt-offerings morning by morning, and evening by evening, and perfume of spices, and the arrangement of bread is on the pure table, and the candlestick of gold, and its lamps, to burn evening by evening, for we are keeping the charge of Jehovah our God, and ye—ye have forsaken Him.

¹⁸ And they come in within unto Hezekiah the king, and say, `We have cleansed all the house of Jehovah, and the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and the table of the arrangement, and all its vessels,

³³ for bread of the arrangement, and the continual present, and the continual burnt-offering of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for appointed seasons, and for holy things, and for sin-offerings, to make atonement for Israel, even all the work of the house of our God.

⁴ how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to him to eat, nor to those with him, except to the priests alone?

² for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence—which is called `Holy;'

³⁹ the one lamb thou dost prepare in the morning, and the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; ⁴⁰ and a tenth deal of fine flour, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin, and a libation, a fourth part of a hin, of wine, is for the one lamb. ⁴¹ `And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; according to the present of the morning, and according to its libation, thou dost prepare for it, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering, to Jehovah: — ⁴² a continual burnt-offering for your generations, at the opening of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah, whither I am met with you, to speak unto thee there,

³¹ And these are they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark, ³² and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service. ³³ And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel,

³⁷ And he leaveth there before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, for Asaph and for his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, according to the matter of a day in its day, ³⁸ both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers, ³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in a high place that is in Gibeon, ⁴⁰ to cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the altar of burnt-offering continually, morning and evening, and for all that is written in the law of Jehovah, that He charged on Israel.

²⁵ And he appointeth the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Jehovah is the command, by the hand of His prophets; ²⁶ and the Levites stand with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And Hezekiah saith to cause the burnt-offering to ascend on the altar; and at the time the burnt-offering began—began the song of Jehovah, and the trumpets, even by the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the assembly are doing obeisance, and the singers singing, and the trumpeters blowing; the whole is till the completion of the burnt-offering.

¹⁰ And those building have founded the temple of Jehovah, and they appoint the priests, clothed, with trumpets, and the Levites, sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, by means of the instruments of David king of Israel. ¹¹ And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age His kindness is over Israel, and all the people have shouted—a great shout—in giving praise to Jehovah, because the house of Jehovah hath been founded.

¹ A Psalm. —A Song for the sabbath-day. Good to give thanks to Jehovah, And to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High, ² To declare in the morning Thy kindness, And Thy faithfulness in the nights. ³ On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. Lo, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah, Who are standing in the house of Jehovah by night. ² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

¹ Praise ye Jah! Praise ye the name of Jehovah, Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, ² Who are standing in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God. ³ Praise ye Jah! for Jehovah is good, Sing praise to His name, for it is pleasant.

¹⁹ O house of Israel, bless ye Jehovah, O house of Aaron, bless ye Jehovah, ²⁰ O house of Levi, bless ye Jehovah, Those fearing Jehovah, bless ye Jehovah.

² On willows in its midst we hung our harps. ³ For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers—joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.' ⁴ How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

⁸ And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints, ⁹ and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, <sup>10</sup> and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.' <sup>11</sup> And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders—and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands— <sup>12</sup> saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!' ¹³ and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, is the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might—to the ages of the ages!' <sup>14</sup> and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.

³ and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, are these: they are My appointed seasons: <sup>3</sup> six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.
<sup>4</sup> `These are appointed seasons of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons: ⁵ in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is the passover to Jehovah; ⁶ and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat; ⁷ on the first day ye have a holy convocation, ye do no servile work; ⁸ and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.' ⁹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, the beginning of your harvest unto the priest, <sup>11</sup> then he hath waved the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath doth the priest wave it. <sup>12</sup> `And ye have prepared in the day of your waving the sheaf a lamb, a perfect one, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah, ¹³ and its present two tenth deals of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance, and its drink-offering, wine, a fourth of the hin. ¹⁴ `And bread and roasted corn and full ears ye do not eat until this self-same day, until your bringing in the offering of your God—a statute age-during to your generations, in all your dwellings.
<sup>15</sup> `And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; ¹⁶ unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah; ¹⁷ out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two loaves, of two tenth deals of flour they are, with yeast they are baken, first-fruits to Jehovah.

²⁴ `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye have a sabbath, a memorial of shouting, a holy convocation;

³⁹ `Only—in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, in your gathering the increase of the land, ye do keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day is a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath;

¹⁰ `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, am your God.'

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

¹ To the Overseer. —`On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. ² Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery. ³ Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival, ⁴ For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

¹³ Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense—an abomination it is to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity—and a restraint! ¹⁴ Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

⁵³ and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

³⁸ And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

⁴ and bring up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that are in the tent, yea, the priests and the Levites bring them up.

²⁷ and round about the house of God they lodge, for on them is the watch, and they are over the opening, even morning by morning.