And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his testimonies, And the statute that he gave them.

Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

Now even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world.

being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.