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fine flour, mixed with oil, as a grain offering 10 The young lions lack and suffer
for each lamb, as a burnt offering of sweet hunger;
aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. But those who seek the LORD shall not
14 Their drink offering shall be half a hin of lack any good thing.
wine for a bull, one-third of a hin for a ram, and
one-fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt 11 Come, you children, listen to me;
offering for each month throughout the I will teach you the fear of
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months of the year. Also one kid of the goats the LORD.
as a sin offering to the LORD shall be offered, 12 Who is the man who desires life,
besides the regular burnt offering and its And loves many days, that he may
drink offering. see good?
16 ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is 13 Keep your tongue from evil,
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the Passover of the LORD. And on the fif- And your lips from speaking deceit.
teenth day of this month is the feast; unleav- 14 Depart from evil and do good;
ened bread shall be eaten for seven days. On Seek peace and pursue it.
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the first day you shall have a holy convocation. Proverbs 11:29
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You shall do no customary work. And you
shall present an offering made by fire as a 29 He who troubles his own house will
burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, inherit the wind,
one ram, and seven lambs in their first year. And the fool will be servant to the wise
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Be sure they are without blemish. Their of heart.
grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with
oil: three-tenths of an ephah you shall offer for
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a bull, and two-tenths for a ram; you shall
offer one-tenth of an ephah for each of the 11:29 inherit the wind. The one who mis-
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seven lambs; also one goat as a sin offering, manages his house will see all he has blown
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to make atonement for you. You shall offer away, and he will have nothing left in the end.
these besides the burnt offering of the morn- He will serve the one who manages well
ing, which is for a regular burnt offering. In (15:27).
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this manner you shall offer the food of the
offering made by fire daily for seven days, as a
sweet aroma to the LORD; it shall be offered
besides the regular burnt offering and its Mark 14:1–26
drink offering. And on the seventh day you
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shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no After two days it was the Passover and the
customary work. 14 Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief
26 ‘Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you priests and the scribes sought how they might
bring a new grain offering to the LORD at your take Him by trickery and put Him to death.
Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convoca- 2 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there
tion. You shall do no customary work. You be an uproar of the people.”
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shall present a burnt offering as a sweet 3 And being in Bethany at the house of Simon
aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came
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and seven lambs in their first year, with their having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of
grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil: spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured
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three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two- it on His head. But there were some who were
tenths for the one ram, and one-tenth for each indignant among themselves, and said, “Why
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of the seven lambs; also one kid of the goats, was this fragrant oil wasted? For it might have
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to make atonement for you. Be sure they are been sold for more than three hundred denarii
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without blemish. You shall present them with and given to the poor.” And they criticized her
their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt sharply.
offering with its grain offering. 6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why do you
trouble her? She has done a good work for Me.
Psalm 34:8–14 7 For you have the poor with you always, and
8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; whenever you wish you may do them good;
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Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! but Me you do not have always. She has done
9 Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! what she could. She has come beforehand to
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There is no want to those who fear anoint My body for burial. Assuredly, I say to
Him. you, wherever this gospel is preached in the
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