All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.

On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

The rest of their fellow Levites were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God’s sanctuary.

Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.

So the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the items used in its service.”

David, Zadok (a descendant of Eleazar), and Ahimelech (a descendant of Ithamar) divided them into groups to carry out their assigned responsibilities.

Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the field workers who farmed the land.

There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.

Preparations were made, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.

The men of Tekoa worked on the section adjacent to them, but their town leaders would not assist with the work of their master.

We accept responsibility for fulfilling the commands to give one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple of our God,