8:1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 8:2Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick. 8:3And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded Moses. 8:4And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work: according unto the pattern which Jehovah had showed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
8:5And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 8:6Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 8:7And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. 8:8Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering. 8:9And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel: 8:10and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites: 8:11and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for a wave-offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Jehovah. 8:12And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites. 8:13And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah.
8:14Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine. 8:15And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering. 8:16For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. 8:17For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. 8:18And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel. 8:19And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.
8:20Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites: according unto all that Jehovah commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. 8:21And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes: and Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. 8:22And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Jehovah had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.
8:23And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 8:24This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting: 8:25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more, 8:26but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
44:1We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
What work thou didst in their days,
In the days of old.
44:2Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;
But them thou didst plant:
Thou didst afflict the peoples;
But them thou didst spread abroad.
44:3For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword,
Neither did their own arm save them;
But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,
Because thou wast favorable unto them.
44:4Thou art my King, O God:
Command deliverance for Jacob.
44:5Through thee will we push down our adversaries:
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6For I will not trust in my bow,
Neither shall my sword save me.
44:7But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,
And hast put them to shame that hate us.
44:8In God have we made our boast all the day long,
And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.
Selah
44:9But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor,
And goest not forth with our hosts.
44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;
And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
44:11Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food,
And hast scattered us among the nations.
44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought,
And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.
44:15All the day long is my dishonor before me,
And the shame of my face hath covered me,
44:16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,
By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
44:17All this is come upon us;
Yet have we not forgotten thee,
Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18Our heart is not turned back,
Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
44:19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God,
Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
44:21Will not God search this out?
For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
Arise, cast us not off for ever.
44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
44:26Rise up for our help,
And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.
6:1Whither is thy beloved gone,
O thou fairest among women?
Whither hath thy beloved turned him,
That we may seek him with thee?
6:2My beloved is gone down to his garden,
To the beds of spices,
To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
6:3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine;
He feedeth his flock among the lilies,
6:4Thou art fair, O my love, as Tirzah,
Comely as Jerusalem,
Terrible as an army with banners.
6:5Turn away thine eyes from me,
For they have overcome me.
Thy hair is as a flock of goats,
That lie along the side of Gilead.
6:6Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes,
Which are come up from the washing;
Whereof every one hath twins,
And none is bereaved among them.
6:7Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate
Behind thy veil.
6:8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines,
And virgins without number.
6:9My dove, my undefiled, is but one;
She is the only one of her mother;
She is the choice one of her that bare her.
The daughters saw her, and called her blessed;
Yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
6:10Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
Fair as the moon,
Clear as the sun,
Terrible as an army with banners?
6:11I went down into the garden of nuts,
To see the green plants of the valley,
To see whether the vine budded,
And the pomegranates were in flower.
6:12Before I was aware, my soul set me
Among the chariots of my princely people.
6:13Return, return, O Shulammite;
Return, return, that we may look upon thee.
Why will ye look upon the Shulammite,
As upon the dance of Mahanaim?
6:1Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 6:2of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 6:3And this will we do, if God permit. 6:4For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 6:5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6:6and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 6:7For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 6:8but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned. 6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak: 6:10for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister. 6:11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end: 6:12that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 6:13For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself, 6:14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 6:15And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 6:16For men swear by the greater: and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 6:17Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us: 6:19which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil; 6:20whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.