'Likewise' in the Bible

And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.

Likewise we cast lots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law;