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1 Chronicles 5-6

5 The sons of Re’uven the firstborn of Isra’el — he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosef the son of Isra’el, though not in such a way as for him to be regarded in the genealogy as the firstborn. ²For Y’hudah became greater than his brothers, inasmuch as the ruler came from him; nevertheless, the birthright went to Yosef. ³So these are the sons of Re’uven the firstborn of Isra’el: Hanokh, Pallu, Hetzron and Karmi.

⁴The descendants of Yo’el: his son Sh’ma‘yah, his son Gog, his son Shim‘i, ⁵his son Mikhah, his son Re‘ayah, his son Ba‘al, ⁶and his son Be’erah. Tilgat-Piln’eser king of Ashur carried him away captive; he was leader of the Re’uveni. ⁷His brothers, by their clans, as listed in their genealogical records were: Ye‘i’el the leader, Z’kharyah ⁸and Bela the son of ‘Azaz the son of Sh’ma the son of Yo’el. He lived in ‘Aro‘er, with territory extending to N’vo and Ba‘al-M‘on; ⁹while to the east he occupied territory that extended to the beginning of the desert as one comes from the Euphrates River; because their cattle multiplied in the land of Gil‘ad. ¹⁰In the time of Sha’ul they went to war with the Hagri’im; after defeating them they occupied their tents throughout all the territory east of Gil‘ad.

¹¹The descendants of Gad lived across from them, in the territory from Bashan to Salkhah: ¹²Yo’el was the leader, Shafam second, then Yanai and Shafat in Bashan. ¹³The houses of their fathers’ brothers were: Mikha’el, Meshulam, Sheva, Yorai, Ya‘kan, Zia and ‘Ever — seven altogether. ¹⁴These are the sons of Avichayil the son of Huri the son of Yaroach the son of Gil‘ad the son of Mikha’el the son of Yeshishai the son of Yachdo the son of Buz; ¹⁵Achi the son of ‘Avdi’el the son of Guni was leader of their fathers’ house. ¹⁶They lived in Gil‘ad, in Bashan, in its towns and in all the pasture lands of the plain as far as their borders. ¹⁷All these were listed in genealogies during the times of Yotam king of Y’hudah and Yarov‘am king of Isra’el.

¹⁸The descendants of Re’uven, the Gadi and the half-tribe of M’nasheh included 44,760 brave men who were available for warfare, able to take up shield and sword, shoot with the bow, or make use of other war skills. ¹⁹These made war with the Hagri’im, Y’tur, Nafish and Nodav. ²⁰They received help against them, so that the Hagri’im and all who were allied with them suffered defeat at their hands; because they cried out to God while they were fighting, and he did as they requested, because they put their trust in him. ²¹From their livestock they carried off 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep and 2,000 donkeys; they also took captive 100,000 persons. ²²Many were slaughtered, because the war was of God, and they lived in their territory until the captivity.

²³The descendants of the half-tribe of M’nasheh lived and increased in the territory from Bashan to Ba‘al-Hermon, S’nir and Mount Hermon. ²⁴The leaders of their fathers’ houses were: ‘Efer, Yish‘i, Eli’el, ‘Azri’el, Yirmeyah, Hodavyah and Yachdi’el, strong, brave, famous men, leaders of their fathers’ houses. ²⁵But they broke faith with the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed ahead of them. ²⁶So the God of Isra’el stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Ashur and the spirit of Tilgat-Piln’eser king of Ashur; and he carried them away as captives — the Re’uveni, the Gadi and the half-tribe of M’nasheh — and brought them to Halach, Havor, Hara and to the Gozan River, where they are to this day.

²⁷^(6:1)The sons of Levi: Gershon, K’hat and M’rari. ²⁸^(6:2)The sons of K’hat: ‘Amram, Yitz’har, Hevron and ‘Uzi’el. ²⁹^(6:3)The children of ‘Amram: Aharon, Moshe and Miryam. The sons of Aharon: Nadav, Avihu, El‘azar and Itamar. ³⁰^(6:4)El‘azar fathered Pinchas, Pinchas fathered Avishua, ³¹^(6:5)Avishua fathered Buki, Buki fathered ‘Uzi, ³²^(6:6)‘Uzi fathered Z’rachyah, Z’rachyah fathered M’rayot, ³³^(6:7)M’rayot fathered Amaryah, Amaryah fathered Achituv, ³⁴^(6:8)Achituv fathered Tzadok, Tzadok fathered Achima‘atz, ³⁵^(6:9)Achima‘atz fathered ‘Azaryah, ‘Azaryah fathered Yochanan, ³⁶^(6:10)and Yochanan fathered ‘Azaryah. He functioned as cohen in the house that Shlomo built in Yerushalayim. ³⁷^(6:11)‘Azaryah fathered Amaryah, Amaryah fathered Achituv, ³⁸^(6:12)Achituv fathered Tzadok, Tzadok fathered Shalum, ³⁹^(6:13)Shalum fathered Hilkiyah, Hilkiyah fathered ‘Azaryah, ⁴⁰^(6:14)‘Azaryah fathered S’rayah, S’rayah fathered Y’hotzadak, ⁴¹^(6:15)and Y’hotzadak went into captivity when Adonai carried Y’hudah and Yerushalayim away at the hands of N’vukhadnetzar.

6 ⁽¹⁶⁾The sons of Levi: Gershom, K’hat and M’rari. ²⁽¹⁷⁾These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Livni and Shim‘i. ³⁽¹⁸⁾The sons of K’hat: ‘Amram, Yitz’har, Hevron and ‘Uzi’el. ⁴⁽¹⁹⁾The sons of M’rari: Machli and Mushi.

These are the families of the L’vi’im according to father’s clans: ⁵⁽²⁰⁾[The descendants] of Gershom: his son Livni, his son Yachat, his son Zimah, ⁶⁽²¹⁾his son Yo’ach, his son ‘Iddo, his son Zerach, his son Ye’atrai.

⁷⁽²²⁾The descendants of K’hat: his son ‘Amminadav, his son Korach, his son Asir, ⁸⁽²³⁾his son Elkanah, his son Evyasaf, his son Asir, ⁹⁽²⁴⁾his son Tachat, his son Uri’el, his son ‘Uziyah and his son Sha’ul. ¹⁰⁽²⁵⁾The sons of Elkanah: ‘Amasai and Achimot. ¹¹⁽²⁶⁾As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: his son Tzofai, his son Nachat, ¹²⁽²⁷⁾his son Eli’av, his son Yerocham and his son Elkanah. ¹³⁽²⁸⁾The sons of Sh’mu’el: Vashni the firstborn, then Aviyah.

¹⁴⁽²⁹⁾The descendants of M’rari: Machli, his son Livni, his son Shim‘i, his son ‘Uzah, ¹⁵⁽³⁰⁾his son Shim‘a, his son Hagiyah and his son ‘Asayah. ¹⁶⁽³¹⁾David appointed them to be in charge of the service of song in the house of Adonai after the ark had found a permanent resting place. ¹⁷⁽³²⁾They served as singers before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Shlomo had built the house of Adonai in Yerushalayim; and they carried out their tasks in a prescribed order.

¹⁸⁽³³⁾Those who carried out these tasks and their descendants were — starting with descendants of the K’hati — Heman the singer, the son of Yo’el the son of Sh’mu’el, ¹⁹⁽³⁴⁾the son of Elkanah, the son of Yerocham, the son of Eli’el, the son of Toach, ²⁰⁽³⁵⁾the son of Tzuf, the son of Elkanah, the son of Machat, the son of ‘Amasai, ²¹⁽³⁶⁾the son of Elkanah, the son of Yo’el, the son of ‘Azaryah, the son of Tz’fanyah, ²²⁽³⁷⁾the son of Tachat, the son of Asir, the son of Evyasaf, the son of Korach, ²³⁽³⁸⁾the son of Yitz’har, the son of K’hat, the son of Levi, the son of Isra’el.

²⁴⁽³⁹⁾His brother Asaf, who stood on his right, was Asaf the son of Berekhyah, the son of Shim‘a, ²⁵⁽⁴⁰⁾the son of Mikha’el, the son of Ba‘aseyah, the son of Malkiyah, ²⁶⁽⁴¹⁾the son of Etni, the son of Zerach the son of ‘Adayah, ²⁷⁽⁴²⁾the son of Eitan, the son of Zimah, the son of Shim‘i, ²⁸⁽⁴³⁾the son of Yachat, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

²⁹⁽⁴⁴⁾On the left were their kinsmen the descendants of M’rari: Eitan the son of Kishi, the son of ‘Avdi, the son of Malukh, ³⁰⁽⁴⁵⁾the son of Hashavyah, the son of Amatzyah, the son of Hilkiyah, ³¹⁽⁴⁶⁾the son of Amtzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, ³²⁽⁴⁷⁾the son of Machli, the son of Mushi, the son of M’rari, the son of Levi.

³³⁽⁴⁸⁾Their kinsmen the L’vi’im were put in charge of all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

³⁴⁽⁴⁹⁾But Aharon and his sons were the ones who offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the service of the Especially Holy Place and to make atonement for Isra’el, in keeping with all that Moshe the servant of God had ordered to be done. ³⁵⁽⁵⁰⁾These are the descendants of Aharon: his son El‘azar, his son Pinchas, his son Avishua, ³⁶⁽⁵¹⁾his son Buki, his son ‘Uzi, his son Z’rachyah, ³⁷⁽⁵²⁾his son M’rayot, his son Amaryah, his son Achituv, ³⁸⁽⁵³⁾his son Tzadok and his son Achima‘atz.

³⁹⁽⁵⁴⁾These were the settlements of the descendants of Aharon according to the territories assigned them: to the descendants of Aharon, of the clans of the K’hati — for the first lot fell to them — ⁴⁰⁽⁵⁵⁾they gave Hevron in the land of Y’hudah with the open land surrounding it, ⁴¹⁽⁵⁶⁾but the fields and the dependent villages of the city they gave to Kalev the son of Y’funeh. ⁴²⁽⁵⁷⁾To the descendants of Aharon they gave the city of refuge Hevron, also Livnah with its surrounding open land, Yatir, Esht’moa with its surrounding open land, ⁴³⁽⁵⁸⁾Hilen with its surrounding open land, D’vir with its surrounding open land, ⁴⁴⁽⁵⁹⁾‘Ashan with its surrounding open land, Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land; ⁴⁵⁽⁶⁰⁾and out of the tribe of Binyamin: Geva with its surrounding open land, ‘Alemet with its surrounding open land and ‘Anatot with its surrounding open land. All the cities for all their clans amounted to thirteen cities.

⁴⁶⁽⁶¹⁾The rest of the descendants of K’hat were assigned by lot, clan by clan, ten cities from the half-tribe of M’nasheh. ⁴⁷⁽⁶²⁾The descendants of Gershom were assigned, clan by clan, thirteen cities from the tribes of Yissakhar, Asher, Naftali and M’nasheh in Bashan. ⁴⁸⁽⁶³⁾To the descendants of M’rari were assigned by lot, clan by clan, twelve cities from the tribes of Re’uven, Gad and Z’vulun. ⁴⁹⁽⁶⁴⁾So the people of Isra’el gave the L’vi’im these cities with the surrounding open land. ⁵⁰⁽⁶⁵⁾From the tribes of the descendants of Y’hudah, Shim‘on and Binyamin they assigned these cities mentioned by name.

⁵¹⁽⁶⁶⁾Some of the clans of the descendants of K’hat were given cities in territory from the tribe of Efrayim. ⁵²⁽⁶⁷⁾They gave them the city of refuge Sh’khem in the hills of Efrayim with the surrounding open land, also Gezer with the surrounding open land, ⁵³⁽⁶⁸⁾Yokme‘am with the surrounding open land, Beit-Horon with the surrounding open land, ⁵⁴⁽⁶⁹⁾Ayalon with the surrounding open land, and Gat-Rimmon with the surrounding open land; ⁵⁵⁽⁷⁰⁾and out of the half-tribe of M’nasheh: ‘Aner with the surrounding open land and Bil‘am with the surrounding open land, for the rest of the clans of the descendants of K’hat.

⁵⁶⁽⁷¹⁾The descendants of Gershom were given, from the clans of the half-tribe of M’nasheh: Golan in Bashan with the surrounding open land and ‘Ashtarot with the surrounding open land; ⁵⁷⁽⁷²⁾and from the tribe of Yissakhar: Kedesh with the surrounding open land, Davrat with the surrounding open land, ⁵⁸⁽⁷³⁾Ramot with the surrounding open land and ‘Anem with the surrounding open land; ⁵⁹⁽⁷⁴⁾and from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with the surrounding open land, ‘Avdon with the surrounding open land, ⁶⁰⁽⁷⁵⁾Hukok with the surrounding open land and Rechov with the surrounding open land; ⁶¹⁽⁷⁶⁾and from the tribe of Naftali: Kedesh in the Galil with the surrounding open land, Hamon with the surrounding open land and Kiryatayim with the surrounding open land.

⁶²⁽⁷⁷⁾To the rest [of the L’vi’im], the descendants of M’rari, were given, from the tribe of Z’vulun: Rimmono with the surrounding open land and Tavor with the surrounding open land; ⁶³⁽⁷⁸⁾and beyond the Yarden at Yericho, on the east side of the Yarden, they were given, from the tribe of Re’uven: Betzer in the desert with the surrounding open land, Yahatz with the surrounding open land, ⁶⁴⁽⁷⁹⁾K’demot with the surrounding open land and Mefa‘at with the surrounding open land; ⁶⁵⁽⁸⁰⁾and from the tribe of Gad: Ramot in Gil‘ad with the surrounding open land, Machanayim with the surrounding open land, ⁶⁶⁽⁸¹⁾Heshbon with the surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with the surrounding open land.

Hebrews 10

10 For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them. ²Otherwise, wouldn’t the offering of those sacrifices have ceased? For if the people performing the service had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have sins on their conscience. ³No, it is quite the contrary — in these sacrifices is a reminder of sins, year after year. ⁴For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

⁵This is why, on coming into the world, he says,

“It has not been your will
to have an animal sacrifice and a meal offering;
rather, you have prepared for me a body.
⁶No, you have not been pleased
with burnt offerings and sin offerings.
⁷Then I said, ‘Look!
In the scroll of the book
it is written about me.
I have come to do your will.’”^[a]

⁸In saying first, “You neither willed nor were pleased with animal sacrifices, meal offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings,” things which are offered in accordance with the Torah; ⁹and then, “Look, I have come to do your will”; he takes away the first system in order to set up the second. ¹⁰It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah’s body.

¹¹Now every cohen stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹²But this one, after he had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³from then on to wait until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet.^[b] ¹⁴For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy.

¹⁵And the Ruach HaKodesh too bears witness to us; for after saying,

¹⁶“ ‘This is the covenant which I will make
with them after those days,’ says Adonai:
‘I will put my Torah on their hearts,
and write it on their minds . . . ,’ ”^[c]

¹⁷he then adds,

“ ‘And their sins and their wickednesses
I will remember no more.’ ”^[d]

¹⁸Now where there is forgiveness for these, an offering for sins is no longer needed.

¹⁹So, brothers, we have confidence to use the way into the Holiest Place opened by the blood of Yeshua. ²⁰He inaugurated it for us as a new and living way through the parokhet, by means of his flesh. ²¹We also have a great cohen over God’s household. ²²Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting — with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.^[e] ²³Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy. ²⁴And let us keep paying attention to one another, in order to spur each other on to love and good deeds, ²⁵not neglecting our own congregational meetings, as some have made a practice of doing, but, rather, encouraging each other.

And let us do this all the more as you see the Day approaching. ²⁶For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies.^[f]

²⁸Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.^[g] ²⁹Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenant^[h] which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God’s grace!

³⁰For the One we know is the One who said,

“Vengeance is my responsibility;
I will repay,”

and then said,

“Adonai will judge his people.”^[i]

³¹It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

³²But remember the earlier days, when, after you had received the light, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. ³³Sometimes you were publicly disgraced and persecuted, while at other times you stood loyally by those who were treated this way. ³⁴For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever.

³⁵So don’t throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward. ³⁶For you need to hold out; so that, by having done what God wills, you may receive what he has promised. ³⁷For

“There is so, so little time!
The One coming will indeed come,
he will not delay.
³⁸But the person who is righteous
will live his life by trusting,
and if he shrinks back,
I will not be pleased with him.”^[j]

³⁹However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!

Amos 4

4 “Listen, you [lovely] cows of Bashan,
who live on Mount Shomron,
who oppress the poor and grind down the needy,
who say to their husbands, ‘Bring something to drink’:
²Adonai Elohim has sworn by his holiness
that your time is surely coming.

“You will be dragged away with hooks,
the last of you with fishhooks.
³You will leave through breaks in the wall,
each woman right behind the next,
and be sent off to Harmonah,” says Adonai.

⁴“Come to Beit-El, and commit crimes;
to Gilgal, and commit more crimes!
Bring your sacrifices in the morning
and your tithes after three days;
⁵burn leavened bread as a thank offering;
brag in public about your voluntary offerings;
because that’s what you love to do, Isra’el!”
says Adonai Elohim.

⁶“I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities,
left you nothing to eat in all your villages;
still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

⁷“I withheld the rain from you
three months before the harvest.
I made it rain on one city
and not on another —
one field had rain,
while another with no rain dried up;
⁸from two or three cities they would stagger to one city
for water to drink, but there wasn’t enough;
still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

⁹“I struck your crops with hot winds and blight,
your many gardens and vineyards;
the cutter-worms devoured
your fig and olive trees;
still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

¹⁰“I sent a plague on you like that of Egypt,
put your young men to death with the sword;
let your horses be captured;
and filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps;
still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.
¹¹“I overthrew some of you,
as when God overthrew S’dom and ‘Amora;
you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire;
still you haven’t returned to me,” says Adonai.

¹²“This is why I will deal with you in this way, Isra’el;
and because I will deal with you in this way,
prepare to meet your God, Isra’el —
¹³him who forms mountains and creates wind,
who declares to humankind his thoughts,
who turns the morning to darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth —
Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot is his name.”

Psalm 148-150

148 Halleluyah!

Praise Adonai from the heavens!
Praise him in the heights!
²Praise him, all his angels!
Praise him, all his armies!

³Praise him, sun and moon!
Praise him, all shining stars!
⁴Praise him, highest heaven,
and waters above the heavens!

⁵Let them praise the name of Adonai;
for he commanded, and they were created.
⁶He established them forever and ever;
he has given a law to which they must conform.

⁷Praise Adonai from the earth,
sea monsters and watery depths,
⁸fire and hail, snow and mist,
storm-winds that obey his word,
⁹mountains and every hill,
fruit trees and all cedars,
¹⁰wild animals and all livestock,
creeping reptiles, flying birds,
¹¹kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all rulers on earth,
¹²young men and women alike,
old men and children.

¹³Let them praise the name of Adonai,
for his name alone is exalted;
his glory is above both earth and heaven.

¹⁴He has increased the power of his people,
granted praise to all his faithful,
to the descendants of Isra’el,
a people close to him.

Halleluyah!
149 Halleluyah!

Sing to Adonai a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
²Let Isra’el rejoice in their maker,
let Tziyon’s children take joy in their king.
³Let them praise his name with dancing,
make melody to him with tambourine and lyre;
⁴for Adonai takes delight in his people,
he crowns the humble with salvation.
⁵Let the faithful exult gloriously,
let them sing for joy on their beds.

⁶Let the high praises of God be in their throats,
but a two-edged sword in their hands
⁷to carry out vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
⁸to bind their kings with chains
and put their nobles in irons,
⁹to execute the judgments decreed for them;
for this will glorify all his faithful.

Halleluyah!

150 Halleluyah!

Praise God in his holy place!
Praise him in the heavenly dome of his power!
²Praise him for his mighty deeds!
Praise him for his surpassing greatness!

³Praise him with a blast on the shofar!
Praise him with lute and lyre!
⁴Praise him with tambourines and dancing!
Praise him with flutes and strings!
⁵Praise him with clanging cymbals!
Praise him with loud crashing cymbals!
⁶Let everything that has breath praise Adonai!

Halleluyah!

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