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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Setting Up the Lamps</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak to Aaron and say to him, &#8216;When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold&#8212;from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had shown Moses.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Setting Apart of the Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">To purify them, do this: Sprinkle the water of cleansing on them; then have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. And so they will purify themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 12</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You are to bring the Levites before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Aaron is to present the Levites before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, using one for a sin offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;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. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From among 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.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moses, Aaron and the whole Israelite community did with the Levites just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Levites purified themselves and washed their clothes. Then Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and made atonement for them to purify them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">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 </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;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, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">but at the age of fifty, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">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.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">66</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 66</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A song. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.66.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Shout for joy to God, all the earth!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.66.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sing the glory of his name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="content">make his praise glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to God, &#8220;How awesome are your deeds!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">So great is your power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">that your enemies cringe before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All the earth bows down to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">they sing praise to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">they sing the praises of your name.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Come and see what God has done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="content">his awesome deeds for mankind!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He turned the sea into dry land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">they passed through the waters on foot&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">come, let us rejoice in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He rules forever by his power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">his eyes watch the nations&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">let not the rebellious rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Praise our God, all peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="content">let the sound of his praise be heard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">he has preserved our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="content">and kept our feet from slipping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For you, God, tested us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="content">you refined us like silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You brought us into prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="content">and laid burdens on our backs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You let people ride over our heads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">we went through fire and water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">but you brought us to a place of abundance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will come to your temple with burnt offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="content">and fulfill my vows to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="content">when I was in trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice fat animals to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">and an offering of rams;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">I will offer bulls and goats.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Come and hear, all you who fear God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="content">let me tell you what he has done for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I cried out to him with my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="content">his praise was on my tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If I had cherished sin in my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="content">the Lord would not have listened;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">but God has surely listened</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="content">and has heard my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Praise be to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="content">who has not rejected my prayer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="content">or withheld his love from me!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">99</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 99</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.99.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reigns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.99.1"><span class="content">let the nations tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.99.1"><span class="content">he sits enthroned between the cherubim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.99.1"><span class="content">let the earth shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.99.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.99.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Great is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.99.2"><span class="content">he is exalted over all the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.99.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.99.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let them praise your great and awesome name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.99.3"><span class="content">he is holy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.99.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.99.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The King is mighty, he loves justice&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.99.4"><span class="content">you have established equity;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.99.4"><span class="content">in Jacob you have done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.99.4"><span class="content">what is just and right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.99.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.99.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Exalt the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.99.5"><span class="content">and worship at his footstool;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.99.5"><span class="content">he is holy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.99.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.99.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron were among his priests,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.99.6"><span class="content">Samuel was among those who called on his name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.99.6"><span class="content">they called on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.99.6"><span class="content">and he answered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.99.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.99.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.99.7"><span class="content">they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.99.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.99.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.99.8"><span class="content">you answered them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.99.8"><span class="content">you were to Israel a forgiving God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.99.8"><span class="content">though you punished their misdeeds.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">99:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God, / an avenger of the wrongs done to them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.99.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.99.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Exalt the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.99.9"><span class="content">and worship at his holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.99.9"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God is holy.</span></span></div>
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