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Standing on the dais, he made a promise, there in the Lord’s presence; they would make the Lord their leader, holding fast by command and decree and observance of his, heart and soul, obeying all the terms of the law they had listened to. (2 Chronicles 34, 31)
they might not partake of the food reserved for the priests, the governor told them, until there should be a high priest that bore the touchstones of wisdom and truth.✻ (Ezra 2, 63)
But meanwhile, money was being spent on quarrymen and stone-masons; on food, too, and drink, and oil for the men of Tyre and Sidon, who must convey cedar planks from Lebanon by sea to Joppe, in pursuance of the Persian king’s decree. (Ezra 3, 7)
they might not partake of the food reserved for the priests, the governor told them, until there should be a high priest that bore the touchstones of wisdom and truth. (Nehemiah 7, 65)
food and drink, the fruit of all our trees, our grapes and our olives, shall be taxed by the priests that have charge of our God’s treasury. Our lands shall be tithed, too, for the Levites; in all our cities the Levites themselves shall collect a tithe from all our crops. (Nehemiah 10, 37)
by refusing to provide food and drink, when Israel came by; it was they, too, that hired Balaam to curse Israel, only our God transformed that curse into a blessing. (Nehemiah 13, 2)
All the rest might share the food of the Gentiles, he would not lose his innocence, he would not defile himself by eating what the law forbade. (Tobit 1, 12)
and its bleating reached her husband’s ears, he made great ado for fear it had been stolen; Nay, he said, this must be restored to its owner; never shall it be said that we ate stolen food, or soiled our hands with theft! (Tobit 2, 21)
Now turn we to Rages,✻ a city in Media, and another soul that must undergo taunts on this same day, Sara, the daughter of Raguel. It was one of her father’s maid-servants that taunted her; (Tobit 3, 7)
Thou, Lord, canst bear me witness that I lusted never after man; still have I guarded my soul from shameful desire, (Tobit 3, 16)
When God takes my soul to himself, give this body of mine burial, and give thy mother her due✻ while her life lasts; (Tobit 4, 3)
alms-deeds were ever a sovereign way of escape from guilt and death, a bar against the soul’s passage into darkness; (Tobit 4, 11)
