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13 He offered the sacrifices every day that Moses had told them to do. There were rules about sacrifices on Sabbath days, on festivals for each new moon and on the three special festivals each year. Those were the Festival of Flat Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Huts.[a] 14 Solomon gave jobs to each group of priests as his father David had commanded. He also gave the Levites their jobs to do each day. They led the music to worship God and they helped the priests with their work. He gave each group of guards a job to watch the gates of the temple. He told them all to do this in the way that God's servant David had commanded. 15 All the priests and the Levites were careful to do exactly what the king had commanded. That included the rooms where they stored valuable things.

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  1. 8:13 See Deuteronomy 16:1-17.

13 according to the daily requirement(A) for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths,(B) the New Moons(C) and the three(D) annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread,(E) the Festival of Weeks(F) and the Festival of Tabernacles.(G) 14 In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions(H) of the priests for their duties, and the Levites(I) to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day’s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers(J) by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God(K) had ordered.(L) 15 They did not deviate from the king’s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.

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