She also gets up ¹  while it is still night, and provides food ²  for her household and a portion ³  to her female servants.

“All the service of the Gershonites, whether ¹  carrying loads ²  or for any of their work, will be at the direction of ³  Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks ⁴  as their responsibility.

The rest of their fellow Levites ¹  were assigned to perform the remaining tasks at God’s sanctuary. ² 

and they ¹  made the Israelites serve rigorously. ² 

You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

She begins ¹  her work vigorously, and she strengthens ²  her arms.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

that the person dedicated to God ¹  may be capable ²  and equipped for every good work.

It said: ¹  “I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket. ² 

The toil of a stupid fool ¹  wears him out, ²  because he does not even know the way to the city. ³ 

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress. ¹ 

And now indeed ¹  the cry ²  of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them. ³ 

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? ¹  Return to your labor!”

The slave masters were pressuring ¹  them, saying, “Complete ²  your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Their relatives, who were leaders of their families, numbered 1,760. They were capable men who were assigned to carry out the various tasks of service in God’s temple. ¹ 

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific ¹  duties to the priests and the Levites.

We must perform the deeds ¹  of the one who sent me ²  as long as ³  it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. ¹  Do not be conceited. ² 

As his father David had decreed, Solomon ¹  appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, ²  and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. ³  This was what David the man of God had ordered. ⁴ 

Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks ¹  – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. ²