Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated with your priesthood. 2. "Also bring with you your brethren of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you while you and your sons are with you before the tabernacle of witness. 3. "They shall attend to your needs and all the needs of the tabernacle; but they shall not come near the articles of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die––they and you also. 4. "They shall be joined with you and attend to the needs of the tabernacle of meeting, for all the work of the tabernacle; but an outsider shall not come near you. 5. "And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, that there may be no more wrath on the children of Israel. 6. "Behold, I Myself have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel; they are a gift to you, given by the LORD, to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 7. "Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything at the altar and behind the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service, but the outsider who comes near shall be put to death." 8. And the LORD spoke to Aaron: "Here, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever. 9. "This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons. 10. "In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you. 11. "This also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 12. "All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, their firstfruits which they offer to the LORD, I have given them to you. 13. "Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 14. "Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours. 15. "Everything that first opens the womb of all flesh, which they bring to the LORD, whether man or beast, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. 16. "And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17. "But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and burn their fat as an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the LORD. 18. "And their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave breast and the right thigh are yours. 19. "All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the LORD, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD with you and your descendants with you." 20. Then the LORD said to Aaron: "You shall have no inheritance in their land, nor shall you have any portion among them; I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. 21. "Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. 22. "Hereafter the children of Israel shall not come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin and die. 23. "But the Levites shall perform the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute forever, throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 24. "For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’" 25. Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26. "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: ‘When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the LORD, a tenth of the tithe. 27. ‘And your heave offering shall be reckoned to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor and as the fullness of the winepress. 28. ‘Thus you shall also offer a heave offering to the LORD from all your tithes which you receive from the children of Israel, and you shall give the LORD’S heave offering from it to Aaron the priest. 29. ‘Of all your gifts you shall offer up every heave offering due to the LORD, from all the best of them, the consecrated part of them.’ 30. "Therefore you shall say to them: ‘When you have lifted up the best of it, then the rest shall be accounted to the Levites as the produce of the threshing floor and as the produce of the winepress. 31. ‘You may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward for your work in the tabernacle of meeting. 32. ‘And you shall bear no sin because of it, when you have lifted up the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.’"
1. <> I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever. 0. 2Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever. 3. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. 4. One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts. 5. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, And on Your wondrous works. 6. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. 7. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness. 8. The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. 9. The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works. 10. All Your works shall praise You, O LORD, And Your saints shall bless You. 11. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, And talk of Your power, 12. To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, And the glorious majesty of His kingdom. 13. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And Your dominion endures throughout all generations. 14. The LORD upholds all who fall, And raises up all who are bowed down. 15. The eyes of all look expectantly to You, And You give them their food in due season. 16. You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing. 17. The LORD is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works. 18. The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. 19. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He also will hear their cry and save them. 20. The LORD preserves all who love Him, But all the wicked He will destroy. 21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD, And all flesh shall bless His holy name Forever and ever.
1. Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2. While I live I will praise the LORD; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3. Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. 4. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. 5. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6. Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever, 7. Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD gives freedom to the prisoners. 8. The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous. 9. The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down. 10. The LORD shall reign forever––Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!
1. Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 2. If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 3. My defense to those who examine me is this: 4. Do we have no right to eat and drink? 5. Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? 6. Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working? 7. Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock? 8. Do I say these things as a mere man? Or does not the law say the same also? 9. For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it oxen God is concerned about? 10. Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11. If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? 12. If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ. 13. Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? 14. Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. 15. But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16. For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17. For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. 18. What is my reward then? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel. 19. For though I am free from all men , I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; 20. and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; 21. to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; 22. to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men , that I might by all means save some. 23. Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you . 24. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it . 25. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown . 26. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.