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Nehemiah 10:33 β Meaning and Application
King James Version
βFor 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.β
Nehemiah 10:33
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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. {every...: Heb. every hand}
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;
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.
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:
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
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