KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Also we made” | וְהֶֽעֱמַ֤דְנוּ | To stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive) | Also made |
| “ordinances” | מִצְוֹ֔ת | A command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law) | ordinances |
| “for” | עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | for |
| “us, to charge” | לָתֵ֥ת | To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) | charge |
| “ourselves” | עָלֵ֛ינוּ | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | ourselves |
| “yearly” | בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה | A year (as a revolution of time) | yearly |
| “with the third part” | שְׁלִשִׁ֥ית | Third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell) | third part |
| “of a shekel” | הַשֶּׁ֖קֶל | Probably a weight; used as a commercial standard | shekel |
| “for the service” | לַֽעֲבֹדַ֖ת | Work of any kind | service |
| “of the house” | בֵּ֥ית | A house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.) | house |
| “of our God;” | אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ | Gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative | God |
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30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the law:
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