Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD according to the directions of King David of Israel.

We also placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; They kept His testimonies And the statute that He gave them.

Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name:

"From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.