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Numbers 7

Offerings at the Dedication of the Tabernacle

    ² Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were counted, made offerings.

    ³ They brought as their gifts before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen— an ox from each leader and a cart from every two. These they presented before the tabernacle.

    ⁴ The LORD said to Moses,

    ⁵ Accept these from them, that they may be used in the work at the Tent of Meeting. Give them to the Levites as each man's work requires.

    ⁶ So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.

    ⁷ He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required,

    ⁸ and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.

    ⁹ But Moses did not give any to the Kohathites, because they were to carry on their shoulders the holy things, for which they were responsible.

    ¹⁰ When the altar was anointed, the leaders brought their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.

    ¹¹ For the LORD had said to Moses, Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.

 ¹²The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.

    ¹³ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ¹⁴ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ¹⁵ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ¹⁶ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ¹⁷ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.

 ¹⁸On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, brought his offering.

    ¹⁹ The offering he brought was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ²⁰ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ²¹ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ²² one male goat for a sin offering;

    ²³ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.

 ²⁴On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the people of Zebulun, brought his offering.

    ²⁵ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ²⁶ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ²⁷ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ²⁸ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ²⁹ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.

 ³⁰On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the people of Reuben, brought his offering.

    ³¹ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ³² one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ³³ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ³⁴ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ³⁵ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.

 ³⁶On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the people of Simeon, brought his offering.

    ³⁷ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ³⁸ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ³⁹ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁴⁰ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁴¹ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

 ⁴²On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the people of Gad, brought his offering.

    ⁴³ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁴⁴ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁴⁵ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁴⁶ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁴⁷ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.

 ⁴⁸On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the people of Ephraim, brought hisoffering.

    ⁴⁹ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁵⁰ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁵¹ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁵² one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁵³ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.

 ⁵⁴On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, the leader of the people of Manasseh, brought his offering.

    ⁵⁵ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁵⁶ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁵⁷ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁵⁸ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁵⁹ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

 ⁶⁰On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the people of Benjamin, brought his offering.

    ⁶¹ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁶² one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁶³ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁶⁴ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁶⁵ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.

 ⁶⁶On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the people of Dan, brought his offering.

    ⁶⁷ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁶⁸ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁶⁹ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁷⁰ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁷¹ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

 ⁷²On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the people of Asher, brought his offering.

    ⁷³ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁷⁴ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁷⁵ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁷⁶ one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁷⁷ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.

 ⁷⁸On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the people of Naphtali, brought his offering.

    ⁷⁹ His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;

    ⁸⁰ one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;

    ⁸¹ one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

    ⁸² one male goat for a sin offering;

    ⁸³ and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.

 ⁸⁴These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.

    ⁸⁵ Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

    ⁸⁶ The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.

    ⁸⁷ The total number of animals for the burnt offering came to twelve young bulls, twelve rams and twelve male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering. Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.

    ⁸⁸ The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.

    ⁸⁹ When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony. And he spoke with him.

Numbers 8

Setting Up the Lamps

    ² Speak to Aaron and say to him, 'When you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of the lampstand.'

    ³ Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

    ⁴ This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold— from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

The Setting Apart of the Levites

    ⁶ Take the Levites from among the other Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.

    ⁷ To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then make them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

    ⁸ Make them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.

    ⁹ Bring the Levites to the front of the Tent of Meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.

    ¹⁰ You are to bring the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on them.

    ¹¹ Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the LORD.

    ¹² After the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, use the one for a sin offering to the LORD and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.

    ¹³ Make the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the LORD.

    ¹⁴ In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

    ¹⁵ After you have purified the Levites and presented them as a wave offering, they are to come to do their work at the Tent of Meeting.

    ¹⁶ They are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn, the first male offspring from every Israelite woman.

    ¹⁷ Every firstborn male in Israel, whether man or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.

    ¹⁸ And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.

    ¹⁹ Of all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the Tent of Meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.

    ²⁰ Moses, Aaron and the whole Israelite community did with the Levites just as the LORD commanded Moses.

    ²¹ The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Then Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the LORD and made atonement for them to purify them.

    ²² After that, the Levites came to do their work at the Tent of Meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the LORD commanded Moses.

    ²³ The LORD said to Moses,

    ²⁴ This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the Tent of Meeting,

    ²⁵ but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer.

    ²⁶ They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites.

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A Lamp on a Stand

    ²² For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

    ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

    ²⁴ Consider carefully what you hear, he continued. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you— and even more.

    ²⁵ Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

The Parable of the Growing Seed

    ²⁷ Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    ²⁸ All by itself the soil produces corn— first the stalk, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

    ²⁹ As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

    ³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground.

    ³² Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.

    ³³ With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.

    ³⁴ He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.

Jesus Calms the Storm

    ³⁶ Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.

    ³⁷ A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.

    ³⁸ Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, Teacher, don't you care if we drown?

    ³⁹ He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, Quiet! Be still! Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

    ⁴⁰ He said to his disciples, Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?

    ⁴¹ They were terrified and asked each other, Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!