Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXXI.
Idoles being destroyed in al Iuda and part of Israel, Priestes and Leuites freely
execute their functions. 4. Tithes and first fruictes are payed in such abundance,
15. that they are put in store houses, and distributed by officers.
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Ezechias.
1 And when these thinges had bene ritely celebrated, al
Israel that was found in the cities of Iuda, went forth,
and they brake the idols, and cut downe the groues, ouerthrew
the excelses, and destroyed the altars, not onlie out
of al Iuda and Beniamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses,
til they vtterly destroyed them: and al the children
of Israel returned into their possessions and cities.
2 And
Ezechias appoynted companies of Priestes, and of Leuites,
by their diuisions, euerie man in his owne office, to witte, as
wel of the Priestes, as of the Leuites, for the holocaustes, and
pacifiques, that they should minister, and note confesse, and
sing in the gates of the campe of our Lord.
3 And the kinges
part was, that of his proper substance holocaust should be
offered, morning alwaies and euening, in the Sabbathes also,
and the Calendes and in other solennites, as it is writen in
the law of Moyses.
4 He commanded also the people that
dwelt in Ierusaiem, to geue portions to the Priestes, and the
Leuites, that they might attend the law of our Lord.
5 Which
when it was noysed in the eares of the multitude, the children
of Israel offered very manie first fruites of corne, of
wine, and of oyle, of honie also: and of al thinges, which the
ground bringeth forth, they offered tithes.
6 Yea and the
children of Israel and Iuda, that dwelt in the cities of Iuda,
offered tithes of oxen, and sheepe, and tithes of sanctified
thinges, which they had vowed to our Lord their God: and
carying them al, made manie heapes.
7 The third moneth
they began to lay the fundations of the heapes, and in the
seuenth moneth they finished them.
8 And when Ezechias,
and his princes came in, they saw the heapes, and blessed our
Lord, and the people of Israel.
9 And Ezechias asked the
Priestes and the Leuites, why the heapes lay so:
10 Azarias
the high Priest of the stocke of Sadoc answered him, saying:
Since first fruites began to be offered in the house of our
Lord, we haue eaten, and haue bene ful, and very much hath
remayned, because our Lord hath blessed his people: and of
the remaynes this is the abundance, which thou seest.
11 Ezechias therfore commanded that storehouses should be
prepared in the house of our Lord. Which when they had
done,
12 they brought in as wel the first fruites, as the tithes,
and watsoeuer they had vowed, faythfully. And the ouerseer
of them was Chonenias a Leuite, and Semeihis brother
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Ezechias.
the second,
13 after whom Iahiel, and Azarias, and Nahath,
and Asael, and Ierimoth, Iosabad also, and Eliel, and Iesmachias,
and Mahath, and Banaias, ouerseers vnder the hand of
Chonenias, and Semei his brother, by the commandment of
Ezechias the king, and Azarias the high Priest of the house
of God, to whom al thinges apperteyned.
14 But Core the
sonne of Iemna a Leuite, and porter of the east gate, was
ouerseer of those thinges, which were voluntarily offered to
our Lord, and of the first fruites and the thinges consecrated
for Sancta sanctorum.
15 And vnder his charge Eden, and
Beniamin, Iesue, and Semeias, Amarias also, and Sechenias,
in the cities of the Priestes, that they should faithfnlly distribute
to their brethren portions, to the lesser and greater:
16 sauing the men children from three yeares and aboue, to
al that entered into the temple of our Lord, and whatsoeuer
day by day was profitable in the ministerie, and the obseruances
according to their diuisions,
17 to the Priestes by families,
and to the Leuites from the twentith yeare and vpward, by
the orders and companies,
18 and to al the multitude, as wel
their wiues, as their children of both sex, meates were geuen
faithfully of these thinges, that had bene sanctified.
19 Yea
and of the children of Aaron by the fildes and the suburbes
of euerie citie, there were men ordayned, that should distribute
portions, to al the male sexe, of the Priestes and the
Leuites.
20 Ezechias therfore did al thinges which we haue
sayd in al Iuda: and wrought good and right, and truth before
our Lord his God,
21 in al the seruice of the ministerie of the
house of our Lord, according to the law and the ceremonies,
willing to seeke his God in al his hart, and he did it and prospered.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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