Numbers 7, Psalm 42, 43, Song of Solomon 5, Hebrews 5

Numbers 7,

1 When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils.
 
2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were counted, made offerings.
 
3 They brought as their gifts before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen-an ox from each leader and a cart from every two. These they presented before the tabernacle.
 
4 The LORD said to Moses,
 
5 "Accept these from them, that they may be used in the work at the Tent of Meeting. Give them to the Levites as each man's work requires."
 
6 So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.
 
7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required,
 
8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
 
9 But Moses did not give any to the Kohathites, because they were to carry on their shoulders the holy things, for which they were responsible.
 
10 When the altar was anointed, the leaders brought their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.
 
11 For the LORD had said to Moses, "Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar."
 
12 The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah.
 
13 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
14 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
15 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
16 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
17 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
 
18 On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, the leader of Issachar, brought his offering.
 
19 The offering he brought was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
20 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
21 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
22 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
23 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.
 
24 On the third day, Eliab son of Helon, the leader of the people of Zebulun, brought his offering.
 
25 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
26 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
27 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
28 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
29 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.
 
30 On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the people of Reuben, brought his offering.
 
31 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
32 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
33 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
34 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
35 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
 
36 On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, the leader of the people of Simeon, brought his offering.
 
37 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
38 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
39 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
40 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
41 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.
 
42 On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the people of Gad, brought his offering.
 
43 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
44 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
45 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
46 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
47 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.
 
48 On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, the leader of the people of Ephraim, brought his offering.
 
49 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
50 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
51 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
52 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
53 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.
 
54 On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, the leader of the people of Manasseh, brought his offering.
 
55 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
56 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
57 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
58 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
59 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
 
60 On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, the leader of the people of Benjamin, brought his offering.
 
61 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
62 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
63 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
64 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
65 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.
 
66 On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, the leader of the people of Dan, brought his offering.
 
67 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
68 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
69 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
70 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
71 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
 
72 On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the people of Asher, brought his offering.
 
73 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
74 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
75 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
76 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
77 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.
 
78 On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, the leader of the people of Naphtali, brought his offering.
 
79 His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
 
80 one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
 
81 one young bull, one ram and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
 
82 one male goat for a sin offering;
 
83 and two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs a year old, to be sacrificed as a fellowship offering. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.
 
84 These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.
 
85 Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
 
86 The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.
 
87 The total number of animals for the burnt offering came to twelve young bulls, twelve rams and twelve male lambs a year old, together with their grain offering. Twelve male goats were used for the sin offering.
 
88 The total number of animals for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering came to twenty-four oxen, sixty rams, sixty male goats and sixty male lambs a year old. These were the offerings for the dedication of the altar after it was anointed.
 
89 When Moses entered the Tent of Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony. And he spoke with him.

Psalm 42, 43,

1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
 
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
 
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
 
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
 
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and
 
6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon-from Mount Mizar.
 
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
 
8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-a prayer to the God of my life.
 
9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
 
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
 
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.
 
2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
 
3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
 
4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
 
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Song of Solomon 5,

1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink your fill, O lovers.
 
2 I slept but my heart was awake. Listen! My lover is knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."
 
3 I have taken off my robe-must I put it on again? I have washed my feet-must I soil them again?
 
4 My lover thrust his hand through the latch-opening; my heart began to pound for him.
 
5 I arose to open for my lover, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
 
6 I opened for my lover, but my lover had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.
 
7 The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!
 
8 O daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you-if you find my lover, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
 
9 How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you charge us so?
 
10 My lover is radiant and ruddy, outstanding among ten thousand.
 
11 His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.
 
12 His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.
 
13 His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.
 
14 His arms are rods of gold set with chrysolite. His body is like polished ivory decorated with sapphires.
 
15 His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.
 
16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Hebrews 5

1 Every high priest is selected from among men and is appointed to represent them in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
 
2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness.
 
3 This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
 
4 No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
 
5 So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father."
 
6 And he says in another place, "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."
 
7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
 
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered
 
9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
 
10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
 
11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn.
 
12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
 
13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
 
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.