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“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people...
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain,...
This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as...
Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, “Speak to the Israelites and say to...
On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had...
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron: “The Israelites are to camp around the...
This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying, “Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or mor
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a...
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families, men from thirty to fifty years old—everyo
So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by...
On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated...
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the Levites from among the...
So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house must bear...
After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the...
And the LORD said to Moses, “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the...
Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: “Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess,
These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days...
You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields. And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil,
Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. You
The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or...
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the...
The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your...
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance,...
On that day Moses commanded the people: “When you have crossed the Jordan, these...
When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel, he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and t
Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan,...
Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of...
Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of...
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim said to his mother, “The...
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the...
Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came...
When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,...
Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him. He would get up early and stand beside the road leading t
At that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all...
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And...
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar,...
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings...
Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of...
David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a...
So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had...
When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel. Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and L
These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were...
These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son...
Now their fellow Levites were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God...
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its...
At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant o
So all the work that Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was...
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five c
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. And King...
Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of...
When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered...
In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Urie
Asa’s son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against...
When Jehoshaphat king of Judah had returned safely to his home in Jerusalem,...
After this, the Moabites and Ammonites, together with some of the Meunites, came...
Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself and made a covenant with...
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty...
Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jer
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the...
Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And he went up to...
Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover...
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD...
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of...
Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them. Then Zer
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of...
This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and...
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble...
Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah,...
On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to...
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before...
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found...
At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began...
When the wall had been rebuilt and I had set the doors in place, the...
At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water...
On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the...
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together,...
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we...
Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while th
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all...
And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies,...
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever ent
“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and...
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious...
There was a chamber with a doorway by the portico in each of the inner gateways. There the burnt offering was to be washed. Inside the portico of the gateway we
Tell the rebellious house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I have had enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel. In addition to all your
“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you are to set aside a...
“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar
John the Baptist rejects rumors about his own identity and publicly identifies an unknown man as the Savior who will take away the world's sins.