Bible Cross References
in controversy
Deuteronomy 17:8-13
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"It may be that some cases will be too difficult for the local judges to decide, such as certain cases of property rights or of bodily injury or those cases that involve a distinction between murder and manslaughter. When this happens, go to the one place of worship chosen by the LORD your God,
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and present your case to the levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time, and let them decide the case.
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They will give their decision, and you are to do exactly as they tell you.
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Accept their verdict and follow their instructions in every detail.
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Anyone who dares to disobey either the judge or the priest on duty is to be put to death; in this way you will remove this evil from Israel.
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Then everyone will hear of it and be afraid, and no one else will dare to act in such a way.
1 Chronicles 23:4
The king assigned twenty-four thousand to administer the work of the Temple, six thousand to keep records and decide disputes,
2 Chronicles 19:8-10
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In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites, priests, and some of the leading citizens as judges in cases involving a violation of the Law of the LORD or legal disputes between inhabitants of the city.
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He gave them the following instructions: "You must perform your duties in reverence for the LORD, faithfully obeying him in everything you do.
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Whenever your fellow citizens from any of the cities bring before you a case of homicide or any other violation of a law or commandment, you must instruct them carefully how to conduct themselves during the trial, so that they do not become guilty of sinning against the LORD. Unless you do, you and your fellow citizens will feel the force of the LORD's anger. But if you do your duty, you will not be guilty.
Ezra 2:63
The Jewish governor told them that they could not eat the food offered to God until there was a priest who could use the Urim and Thummim.
they shall keep
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
in all
Leviticus 23:1-44
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the following regulations for the religious festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather for worship.
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You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. The Sabbath belongs to the LORD, no matter where you live.
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Proclaim the following festivals at the appointed times.
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The Passover, celebrated to honor the LORD, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
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On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Offer your food offerings to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.
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When you come into the land that the LORD is giving you and you harvest your grain, take the first sheaf to the priest.
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He shall present it as a special offering to the LORD, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath.
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On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects.
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With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine.
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Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.
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Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the LORD.
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On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the LORD another new offering of grain.
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Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the LORD as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the LORD as an offering of the first grain to be harvested.
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And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.
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The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the LORD for the priests. These offerings are holy.
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On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.
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When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The LORD is your God.
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On the first day of the seventh month observe a special day of rest, and come together for worship when the trumpets sound.
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Present a food offering to the LORD and do none of your daily work.
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The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when the annual ritual is to be performed to take away the sins of the people. On that day do not eat anything at all; come together for worship, and present a food offering to the LORD.
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Do no work on that day, because it is the day for performing the ritual to take away sin.
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Any who eat anything on that day will no longer be considered God's people.
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And if any do any work on that day, the LORD himself will put them to death.
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This regulation applies to all your descendants, no matter where they live.
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From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten.
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The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continues for seven days.
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On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.
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(These are the religious festivals on which you honor the LORD by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.
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These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.)
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When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.
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On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the LORD your God.
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Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.
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All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,
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so that your descendants may know that the LORD made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the LORD your God.
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So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the LORD.
Numbers 28:1-29
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The LORD commanded Moses
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to instruct the Israelites to present to God at the appointed times the required food offerings that are pleasing to him.
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These are the food offerings that are to be presented to the LORD: for the daily burnt offering, two one-year-old male lambs without any defects.
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Offer the first lamb in the morning, and the second in the evening,
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each with a grain offering of 2 pounds of flour, mixed with 2 pints of the best olive oil.
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This is the daily offering that is completely burned, which was first offered at Mount Sinai as a food offering, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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As the wine offering with the first lamb, pour out at the altar 2 pints of wine.
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In the evening offer the second lamb in the same way as the morning offering, together with its wine offering. It also is a food offering, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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On the Sabbath day offer two one-year-old male lambs without any defects, 4 pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, and the wine offering.
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This burnt offering is to be offered every Sabbath in addition to the daily offering with its wine offering.
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Present a burnt offering to the LORD at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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As a grain offering, offer flour mixed with olive oil: with each bull, 6 pounds of flour; with the ram, 4 pounds;
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and with each lamb, 2 pounds. These burnt offerings are food offerings, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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The proper wine offering is 4 pints of wine with each bull, 3 pints with the ram, and 2 pints with each lamb. This is the regulation for the burnt offering for the first day of each month throughout the year.
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And in addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, offer one male goat as a sin offering.
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The Passover Festival in honor of the LORD is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day a religious festival begins which lasts seven days, during which only bread prepared without yeast is to be eaten.
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On the first day of the festival you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.
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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.
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Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering.
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In the same way, for seven days offer to the LORD a food offering, an odor pleasing to him. Offer this in addition to the daily burnt offering and wine offering.
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Meet for worship on the seventh day and do no work.
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On the first day of the Harvest Festival, when you present the offering of new grain to the LORD, you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.
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Offer a burnt offering as an odor pleasing to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb.
Nehemiah 8:1-18
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By the seventh month the people of Israel were all settled in their towns. On the first day of that month they all assembled in Jerusalem, in the square just inside the Water Gate. They asked Ezra, the priest and scholar of the Law which the LORD had given Israel through Moses, to get the book of the Law.
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So Ezra brought it to the place where the people had gathered---men, women, and the children who were old enough to understand.
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There in the square by the gate he read the Law to them from dawn until noon, and they all listened attentively.
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Ezra was standing on a wooden platform that had been built for the occasion. The following men stood at his right: Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and the following stood at his left: Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
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As Ezra stood there on the platform high above the people, they all kept their eyes fixed on him. As soon as he opened the book, they all stood up.
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Ezra said, "Praise the LORD, the great God!" All the people raised their arms in the air and answered, "Amen! Amen!" They knelt in worship, with their faces to the ground.
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Then they rose and stood in their places, and the following Levites explained the Law to them: Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah.
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They gave an oral translation of God's Law and explained it so that the people could understand it.
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When the people heard what the Law required, they were so moved that they began to cry. So Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra, the priest and scholar of the Law, and the Levites who were explaining the Law told all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God, so you are not to mourn or cry.
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Now go home and have a feast. Share your food and wine with those who don't have enough. Today is holy to our Lord, so don't be sad. The joy that the LORD gives you will make you strong."
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The Levites went around calming the people and telling them not to be sad on such a holy day.
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So all the people went home and ate and drank joyfully and shared what they had with others, because they understood what had been read to them.
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The next day the heads of the clans, together with the priests and the Levites, went to Ezra to study the teachings of the Law.
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They discovered that the Law, which the LORD gave through Moses, ordered the people of Israel to live in temporary shelters during the Festival of Shelters.
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So they gave the following instructions and sent them all through Jerusalem and the other cities and towns: "Go out to the hills and get branches from pines, olives, myrtles, palms, and other trees to make shelters according to the instructions written in the Law."
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So the people got branches and built shelters on the flat roofs of their houses, in their yards, in the Temple courtyard, and in the public squares by the Water Gate and by the Ephraim Gate.
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All the people who had come back from captivity built shelters and lived in them. This was the first time it had been done since the days of Joshua son of Nun, and everybody was excited and happy.
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From the first day of the festival to the last they read a part of God's Law every day. They celebrated for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a closing ceremony, as required in the Law.
and they shall hallow
Ezekiel 22:26
The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
Isaiah 58:13
The LORD says, "If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day,
Isaiah 58:14
then you will find the joy that comes from serving me. I will make you honored all over the world, and you will enjoy the land I gave to your ancestor, Jacob. I, the LORD, have spoken."