who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the sacrificial offerings made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed them.

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you.

ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, eliminating the cities, including its frontier cities, the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.

and said, “I called out to the Lord from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.

The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties – so many that people will stumble over the corpses.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes according to their clans.

So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

The house of Israel called its name “manna.” It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted like wafers with honey.

and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

“You are to make its seven lamps, and then set its lamps up on it, so that it will give light to the area in front of it.

“You are to command the Israelites that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, so that the lamps will burn regularly.

“Command the Israelites to bring to you pure oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the Lord,

And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

“They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.