Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.

And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.