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Thus I came to the exiles who lived at Tel-abib by the river Chebar; and there where they dwelt, I stayed among them distraught for seven days.
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At the end of the seven days, the word of the Lord came to me: The Prophet as Sentinel.
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Before them stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel. Among them stood Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, each with censer in hand; a cloud of incense drifted upward.
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Chapter 20
Israel’s History of Infidelity. In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to consult the Lord and sat down before me.
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Wages for Nebuchadnezzar. In the twenty-seventh year on the first day of the first month, the word of the Lord came to me:
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Pharaoh’s Broken Arm. On the seventh day of the first month in the eleventh year, the word of the Lord came to me:
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Everyone living in the cities of Israel shall go out and set fire to the weapons, buckler and shield, bows and arrows, clubs and spears; for seven years they shall make fires with them.
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For seven months the house of Israel shall bury them in order to cleanse the land.
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Men shall be permanently assigned to pass through the land, burying those who lie unburied in order to cleanse the land. For seven months they shall keep searching.
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Its windows, its vestibule, and its palm decorations had the same proportions as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, and its vestibule faced the inside.
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Seven steps led up to it, its vestibule faced inside; and palms decorated each of the posts opposite one another.
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Then he went inside and measured the posts at the other entrance, two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, with walls seven cubits long on each side.
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The building opposite the restricted area on the west side was seventy cubits long and ninety cubits wide, with walls five cubits thick all around it.
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Daily for seven days you shall give a male goat as a purification offering; and a young bull and a ram from the flock, all unblemished, shall be offered
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for seven days. Thus they shall purge the altar, in order to cleanse and dedicate it.
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After he is again clean, he must wait an additional seven days;
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You shall repeat this on the seventh day of the month for those who have sinned inadvertently or out of ignorance; thus you shall purge the temple.
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On the fourteenth day of the first month you shall observe the feast of Passover; for seven days unleavened bread must be eaten.
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On each of the seven days of the feast he shall sacrifice, as a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, and as a purification offering he shall sacrifice one male goat each day.
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The Feast of Booths. In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, on the feast day and for the next seven days, he shall make the same offerings: the same purification offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and offerings of oil.