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This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'I have had enough of you, you princes of Israel.' 'Stop your violence and looting, and do what is fair and right. Stop evicting my people,' declares the Lord Jehovah. You must have honest scales and honest dry and liquid measures. The dry and liquid measures must always be the same: The ephah and the bath should hold the same as one-tenth of a homer. The homer must be the standard measure. read more.
One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.' This is the contribution you must give to Jehovah: seventeen percent of your wheat and seventeen percent of your barley. You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure. You must take one sheep out of every two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. You must sacrifice them with grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make peace with Jehovah,' declares the Lord Jehovah. All the common people must give this contribution to the prince in Israel. Then the prince is responsible to provide burnt offerings, grain offerings, and wine offerings at the annual festivals, the New Moon Festivals, the weekly days of worship, and all the other appointed festivals of the nation of Israel. He must prepare offerings for sin, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the nation of Israel. This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'On the first day of the first month, take a young bull that has no defects and remove sin from the holy place. The priest must take some blood from the offering for sin and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorposts of the gateways of the inner courtyard. You must do the same on the seventh day of the month for everyone who unintentionally does something wrong and is unaware of it. So you must pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the Temple. On the fourteenth day of the first month, you will celebrate the Passover, a festival lasting seven days when unleavened bread is eaten. At that time the prince must prepare for himself and for all the common people a young bull as an offering for sin. Every day during the seven days of the festival, he must prepare burnt offerings for Jehovah: seven young bulls that have no defects, seven rams that have no defects, and one male goat as an offering for sin. He must also give as a grain offering a half-bushel for each young bull and a half-bushel for each ram. He must also give one gallon of olive oil for every half-bushel of grain. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at the Festival of Booths, he must do the same as on those seven days. He must prepare the same offerings for sin, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and olive oil.'
One shekel must weigh twenty gerahs. One mina must weigh sixty shekels.' This is the contribution you must give to Jehovah: seventeen percent of your wheat and seventeen percent of your barley. You must give one percent of your olive oil using the standard measure. You must take one sheep out of every two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. You must sacrifice them with grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make peace with Jehovah,' declares the Lord Jehovah. All the common people must give this contribution to the prince in Israel. Then the prince is responsible to provide burnt offerings, grain offerings, and wine offerings at the annual festivals, the New Moon Festivals, the weekly days of worship, and all the other appointed festivals of the nation of Israel. He must prepare offerings for sin, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the nation of Israel. This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'On the first day of the first month, take a young bull that has no defects and remove sin from the holy place. The priest must take some blood from the offering for sin and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorposts of the gateways of the inner courtyard. You must do the same on the seventh day of the month for everyone who unintentionally does something wrong and is unaware of it. So you must pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with Jehovah for the Temple. On the fourteenth day of the first month, you will celebrate the Passover, a festival lasting seven days when unleavened bread is eaten. At that time the prince must prepare for himself and for all the common people a young bull as an offering for sin. Every day during the seven days of the festival, he must prepare burnt offerings for Jehovah: seven young bulls that have no defects, seven rams that have no defects, and one male goat as an offering for sin. He must also give as a grain offering a half-bushel for each young bull and a half-bushel for each ram. He must also give one gallon of olive oil for every half-bushel of grain. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at the Festival of Booths, he must do the same as on those seven days. He must prepare the same offerings for sin, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and olive oil.'
The prince must enter from the outside through the entrance hall of the gateway. He must stand by the doorposts of the gateway. Then the priests must prepare the prince's burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He must worship at the entrance of the gateway and then leave. The gate must not be closed until evening.
The prince must offer to Jehovah six lambs that have no defects and one ram that has no defects as a burnt offering on the day of worship. The grain offering that is to be brought with the ram must be a half-bushel, and the grain offering that is to be brought with the lambs must be whatever the prince can bring. One gallon of olive oil must be brought with each half-bushel of grain. On the first day of the month, the burnt offering must be one young bull, six lambs, and one ram-all animals that have no defects. read more.
With each young bull and each ram the offering must include a half-bushel of grain, and with each lamb the offering must be whatever the prince wants to bring. One gallon of olive oil must be offered with each half-bushel of grain. When the prince enters, he must enter through the entrance hall of the gateway. He must enter and leave the same way.
With each young bull and each ram the offering must include a half-bushel of grain, and with each lamb the offering must be whatever the prince wants to bring. One gallon of olive oil must be offered with each half-bushel of grain. When the prince enters, he must enter through the entrance hall of the gateway. He must enter and leave the same way.
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The prince must enter from the outside through the entrance hall of the gateway. He must stand by the doorposts of the gateway. Then the priests must prepare the prince's burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He must worship at the entrance of the gateway and then leave. The gate must not be closed until evening.
Temple » Solomon's » Uses of the temple » For prayer and worship
I will bring them to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.
Peter and John went up to the temple at the hour of prayer. It was the ninth hour.
Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
The people will enter Jehovah's presence at the time of the appointed festivals. Those entering through the north gate to worship must leave through the south gate. Those entering through the south gate must leave through the north gate. They must not leave through the same gate they entered. They must leave through the opposite gate.
The Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard and their prayer came to God's holy dwelling place, to heaven.
Jehovah said to me: Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not omit anything.
Stand at the gate of Jehovah's house and proclaim there this word: 'Hear the word of Jehovah, all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship Jehovah!
Hezekiah read the letters from the messengers. Then he went to Jehovah's Temple and shared them with Jehovah. He prayed: Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, you are enthroned above the angels. You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made heaven and earth.
A great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship Jehovah on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
The prince must enter from the outside through the entrance hall of the gateway. He must stand by the doorposts of the gateway. Then the priests must prepare the prince's burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He must worship at the entrance of the gateway and then leave. The gate must not be closed until evening. The common people must worship at the door of the gateway in the presence of Jehovah on the weekly days of worship and on New Moon Festivals.
Now they of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to request the favor of Jehovah. Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of Hosts; I will go also. Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to request the favor of Jehovah.
When he taught, he said: Is it not written, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.