¹⁴ And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he shall do as you do. ¹⁵ For the assembly, ^(A)there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. ¹⁶ One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”

¹⁷ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ^18 (B)“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you ¹⁹ and when you eat of ^(C)the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the Lord. ^20 (D)Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a ^(E)contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it. ^21 (F)Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord as a contribution throughout your generations.

Laws About Unintentional Sins

^22 (G)“But if you sin unintentionally,^[a] and do not observe all these commandments that the Lord has spoken to Moses, ²³ all that the Lord has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the Lord gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations, ²⁴ then if it was done unintentionally ^(H)without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the Lord, ^(I)with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and ^(J)one male goat for a sin offering. ^25 (K)And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake. ²⁶ And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.

^27 (L)“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. ^28 (M)And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. ^29 (N)You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. ^30 (O)But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. ³¹ Because he has ^(P)despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”

⁷ Then on that day ^(A)David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the Lord by Asaph and his brothers.

David's Song of Thanks

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^(AA)Then all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

Worship Before the Ark

³⁷ So David left Asaph and his brothers there ^(AB)before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the ark ^(AC)as each day required, ³⁸ and also ^(AD)Obed-edom and his^[b] sixty-eight brothers, while ^(AE)Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and ^(AF)Hosah were to be gatekeepers. ³⁹ And he left ^(AG)Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord ^(AH)in the high place that was at Gibeon ⁴⁰ to offer burnt offerings to the Lord ^(AI)on the altar of burnt offering ^(AJ)regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the Lord that he commanded Israel. ⁴¹ With them were ^(AK)Heman and Jeduthun ^(AL)and the rest of those chosen and ^(AM)expressly named to give thanks to the Lord, ^(AN)for his steadfast love endures forever. ⁴² Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments ^(AO)for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.

^43 (AP)Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.

The Temple's Chambers

42 Then he led me out into ^(A)the outer court, ^(B)toward the north, and he brought me to ^(C)the chambers that were opposite ^(D)the separate yard and opposite ^(E)the building on the north. ² The length of the building whose door faced north was ^(F)a hundred cubits,^[a] and ^(G)the breadth fifty cubits. ³ Facing ^(H)the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^(I)the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^(J)gallery^[b] against gallery in three stories. ⁴ And ^(K)before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and ^(L)a hundred cubits long,^[c] and ^(M)their doors were on the north. ⁵ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. ⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ⁷ And ^(N)there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^(O)fifty cubits long. ⁸ For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^(P)the nave^[d] were ^(Q)a hundred cubits long. ⁹ Below these chambers was ^(R)an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

¹⁰ In the thickness of ^(S)the wall of the court, on the south^[e] also, opposite ^(T)the yard and opposite ^(U)the building, there were ^(V)chambers ¹¹ with ^(W)a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits^[f] and arrangements and ^(X)doors, ¹² as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before ^(Y)the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.^[g]

¹³ Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite ^(Z)the yard are the holy chambers, ^(AA)where the priests who approach the Lord ^(AB)shall eat the ^(AC)most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—^(AD)the grain offering, ^(AE)the sin offering, and ^(AF)the guilt offering—for the place is holy. ¹⁴ When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court ^(AG)without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. ^(AH)They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”

¹⁵ Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by ^(AI)the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. ¹⁶ He measured the east side with ^(AJ)the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ¹⁷ He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. ¹⁸ He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ¹⁹ Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. ²⁰ He measured it on the four sides. It had ^(AK)a wall around it, ^(AL)500 cubits long and ^(AM)500 cubits broad, ^(AN)to make a separation between the holy and the common.

Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem

²⁰ “But ^(A)when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that ^(B)its desolation has come near. ²¹ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, ²² for these are ^(C)days of ^(D)vengeance, to fulfill ^(E)all that is written. ^23 (F)Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and ^(G)wrath against this people. ²⁴ They will fall by the edge of the sword and ^(H)be led captive among all nations, and ^(I)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, ^(J)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The Coming of the Son of Man

²⁵ “And ^(K)there will be signs in sun and moon ^(L)and stars, and on the earth ^(M)distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, ²⁶ people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For ^(N)the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ And then they will see ^(O)the Son of Man coming in a cloud ^(P)with power and great glory. ²⁸ Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and ^(Q)raise your heads, because ^(R)your redemption is drawing near.”

Greeting

1 Paul, ^(A)an apostle of Christ Jesus ^(B)by the will of God, and Timothy ^(C)our brother,

² To the ^(D)saints and faithful brothers^[a] in Christ at Colossae:

^(E)Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

^3 (F)We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴ since we heard of ^(G)your faith in Christ Jesus and of ^(H)the love that you have for all the saints, ⁵ because of ^(I)the hope ^(J)laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in ^(K)the word of the truth, the gospel, ⁶ which has come to you, as indeed ^(L)in the whole world it is ^(M)bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you ^(N)heard it and understood ^(O)the grace of God in truth, ⁷ just as you learned it from ^(P)Epaphras our beloved ^(Q)fellow servant.^[b] He is ^(R)a faithful minister of Christ on your^[c] behalf ⁸ and has made known to us your ^(S)love in the Spirit.

⁹ And so, ^(T)from the day we heard, ^(U)we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that ^(V)you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all ^(W)spiritual wisdom and understanding, ¹⁰ so as ^(X)to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, ^(Y)fully pleasing to him: ^(Z)bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; ^11 (AA)being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for ^(AB)all endurance and patience ^(AC)with joy; ^12 (AD)giving thanks^[d] to the Father, who has qualified you^[e] to share in ^(AE)the inheritance of the saints in light. ¹³ He ^(AF)has delivered us from ^(AG)the domain of darkness and transferred us to ^(AH)the kingdom of ^(AI)his beloved Son, ^14 (AJ)in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.