‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Like an eagle that stirs up ¹  its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord ²  spread out his wings and took him, ³  he lifted him up on his pinions.

Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns ¹  in front of the ark. On the seventh day march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ¹  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ²  Hazor.

He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these ¹  people.

Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded ¹  for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

The descendants of Levi carried the ark of God on their shoulders with poles, just as Moses had ordered according to the divine command.

David, Zadok (a descendant of Eleazar), and Ahimelech (a descendant of Ithamar) divided them into groups to carry out their assigned responsibilities. ¹ 

Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom. ¹ 

We accept responsibility for fulfilling ¹  the commands to give ²  one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple ³  of our God,

Whoever obeys his ¹  command will not experience harm, and a wise person ²  knows the proper time ³  and procedure.

I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction! ¹ 

They also took the pots, shovels, ¹  trimming shears, ²  basins, pans, and all the bronze utensils used by the priests. ³ 

Next I noticed the man dressed in linen with the writing kit at his side bringing back word: “I have done just as you commanded me.”

and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. ¹  That man ²  is righteous; he will certainly live, ³  declares the sovereign Lord.

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

For in those days before the flood, people ¹  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.