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On the fifty-eighth day, Numbers 7 describes in detail the offerings of the twelve tribes of Israel, a testament to generosity and unity in worship. In Deuteronomy 7, Moses assures us that God will bless the faithful people and punish idolatry, reaffirming divine love and justice. Psalm 92 completes the set with songs of praise for the Lord's goodness and faithfulness. The readings remind us that serving and obeying God is a source of joy and spiritual security.

1. And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

2. The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered

3. Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.

3. 3, sacrifice:

3. 3l Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

4. And the Lord said to Moses:

5. Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of their ministry.

6. Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites.

7. Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to their necessity.

8. The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

9. But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

10. And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.

11. And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.

12. The first day Nahasson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Juda offered his offering:

13. And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for

14. A little mortar of ten sides of gold full of incense:

15. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

16. And a buck goat for sin:

17. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nahasson the son of Aminadab.

18. The second day Nathanael the son of Suar, prince of the tribe of Issachar, made his offering,

19. A silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

20. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

21. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

22. And a buck goat for sin:

23. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Nathanael the son of Suar.

24. The third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon,

25. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

26. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

27. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

28. And a buck goat for sin:

29. And for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This is the oblation of Eliab the son of Helon.

30. The fourth day the prince of the sons of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur,

32. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

33. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old, for a holocaust:

34. And a buck goat for sin:

35. And for victims of peace offerings two oxen, five rams, five buck goats. five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisur the son of Sedeur.

36. The fifth day the prince of the sons of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai,

37. Offered a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides after the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

38. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

39. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

40. And a buck goat for sin:

41. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

42. The sixth day the prince of the sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel,

43. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

44. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

45. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

46. And a buck goat for sin:

47. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Duel.

48. The seventh day the prince of the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son Ammiud,

49. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of hour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

50. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense :

51. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

52. And a buck goat for sin:

53. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Elisama the son of Ammiud.

54. The eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur,

55. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

56. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:

57. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

58. And a buck goat for sin:

59. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

60. The ninth day the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon,

61. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides by the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

62. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

63. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a, holocaust:

64. And a buck goat for sin:

65. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gedeon.

66. The tenth day the prince of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai,

67. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

68. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense :

69. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

70. And a buck goat for sin:

71. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

72. The eleventh day the prince of the sons of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran,

73. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

74. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

75. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

76. And a buck goat for sin:

77. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Phegiel the son of Ochran.

78. The twelfth day the prince of the sons of Nephtali, Ahira the son of Enan,

79. Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides, a silver bowl of seventy sides, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

80. A little mortar of gold weighing ten sides full of incense:

81. An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

82. And a buck goat for sin:

83. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

84. These were the offerings made by the princes of Israel in the dedication of the altar, in the day wherein it was consecrated. Twelve dishes of silver: twelve silver bowls: twelve little mortars of gold:

85. Each dish weighing a hundred and thirty sides of silver, and each bowl seventy sides: that is, putting all the vessels of silver together, two thousand four hundred sides, by the weight of the sanctuary.

86. Twelve little mortars of gold full of incense, weighing ten sides apiece, by the weight of the sanctuary: that is, in all a hundred and twenty sides of gold.

87. Twelve oxen out of the herd for a holocaust, twelve rams, twelve lambs of a year old, and their libations: twelve buck goats for sin.

88. And for sacrifices of peace offerings, oxen twenty-four, rams sixty, buck goats sixty, lambs of a year old sixty. These things were offered in the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed.

89. And when Moses entered into the tabernacle of the covenant, to consult the oracle, he heard the voice of one speaking to him from the propitiatory, that was over the ark between the two cherubims, and from this place he spoke to him.

1. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

2. And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:

4. For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.

5. But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

6. Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

7. Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:

8. But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.

9. And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:

10. And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.

11. 11Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

12. If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:

13. And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.

14. Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.

15. The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee, but upon thy enemies.

16. Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

17. If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

18. Fear not, but remember what the Lord thy God did to Pharao and to all the Egyptians,

19. The exceeding great plagues, which thy eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched out arm, with which the Lord thy God brought thee out: so will he do to all the people, whom thou fearest.

20. Moreover the Lord thy God will send also hornets among them, until he destroy and consume all that have escaped thee, and could hide themselves.

21. Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:

22. He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

23. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.

24. And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them.

25. Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema.

1. A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day.

2. It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

3. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the night:

4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

5. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.

6. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.

7. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

8. When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever:

9. but thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

10. For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

11. But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

12. My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.

13. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

14. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

15. They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated,

16. that they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.