From the priests: Jedaiah son of Joiarib, Jakin,

Some of the Judean divisions of the Levites settled in Benjamin.

They are dark because of ice; snow is piled up over them.

Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –

A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

They say, “Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

Remove me from the path of deceit! Graciously give me your law!

Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.

The fat and the kidneys and the protruding lobe of the liver from the sin offering he offered up in smoke on the altar just as the Lord had commanded Moses,

“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the Lord, anything which he gives to the Lord from this kind of animal will be holy.