When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.

Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part 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, the statute that he gave them.

Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

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

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

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