'Ordinance' in the Bible

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as an ordinance forever.

You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your hosts [grouped according to tribal armies] out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an ordinance forever.

You shall observe this event [concerning Passover] as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat it;

Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at this time from year to year.

Then he cried to the Lord [for help], and the Lord showed him a tree, [a branch of] which he threw into the waters, and the waters became sweet.There the Lord made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them,

The second [bird] he shall prepare as a burnt offering, according to the ordinance. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for the sin which he has committed, and it will be forgiven him.

He also presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance.

Therefore the priests shall observe My ordinance, so that they will not bear sin because of it and die if they profane it; I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who lives with you as a resident alien.’”

then it shall be, if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat as a sin offering.

If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative in his own family, and he shall take possession of it. It shall be a statute and ordinance to the Israelites, just as the Lord has commanded Moses.’”

These are in addition to the burnt offering of the New Moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to the ordinance for them, as a sweet and soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

with their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

and their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

and their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

their grain offering and drink offerings for the bull, the ram, and the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance,

‘These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be.

So from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

and to offer all burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the festivals by number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before the Lord.

So they roasted the Passover lambs on the fire according to the ordinance; and they cooked the holy offerings in pots, in kettles, and in pans, and quickly brought them to all the lay people.

Then Jeremiah sung a lament (funeral song) for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken about Josiah in their laments to this day. They made the songs an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.

Every day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the feast for seven days; on the eighth day there was a [closing] solemn assembly in accordance with the ordinance.

For this is a statute for Israel,An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight [superficially] to know My ways,As [if they were in reality] a nation that has done righteousnessAnd has not abandoned (turned away from) the ordinance of their God.They ask of Me righteous judgments,They delight in the nearness of God.

‘Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.‘Do you not tremble [in awe] in My presence?For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,An eternal decree and a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass.Though the waves [of the sea] toss and break, yet they cannot prevail [against the sand ordained to hold them back];Though the waves and the billows roar, yet they cannot cross over [the barrier].[Is not such a God to be feared?]

Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one-sixth of an ephah with one-third of a hin of oil to sprinkle on the finely-milled flour. This is a perpetual ordinance for a continual grain offering to the Lord.

And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.