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 according to the directions of David king of Israel.

And 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 spoke 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 light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, Jehovah of hosts is his name:

Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes, 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?

So that he that sets himself in opposition to the authority resists the ordinance of God; and they who thus resist shall bring sentence of guilt on themselves.

Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right.