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Ezra 2:63

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The governor  ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.

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Place the Urim and Thummim  in the breastpiece for decisions, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the Lord. Aaron will continually carry the means of decisions for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord.


He will stand before the priest Eleazar who will consult the Lord for him with the decision of the Urim.  He and all the Israelites with him, even the entire community, will go out and come back in at his command.’


But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons;  it is the holiest part of the food offerings to the Lord.


But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons; it is the holiest part  of the food offerings to the Lord.


Nehemiah the governor,  Ezra the priest and scribe,  and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, ‘This day  is holy to the Lord your God. Do not mourn or weep.’  For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the law.


‘No one outside a priest’s family  , is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.


Those whose seals were on the document were the governor Nehemiah  son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,


The governor  ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.


He enquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him in dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.


He said about Levi: Your Thummim and Urim  belong to your faithful one; you tested him at Massah and contended with him at the Waters of Meribah.


You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.’


‘I give to you and to your sons and daughters all the holy contributions that the Israelites present to the Lord as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of salt  before the Lord for you as well as your offspring.’


Then he put the breastpiece on him and placed the Urim and Thummim  into the breastpiece.


‘If the sacrifice he offers is a vow  or a freewill offering,  it is to be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and what is left over may be eaten on the next day.


Any male among the priests may eat it; it is especially holy.


It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion  from my food offerings.  It is especially holy, like the sin offering  and the guilt offering.


The whole combined assembly numbered 42,360


But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.


Seraiah,  Azariah, Jeremiah,





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