Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;for the showbread, and for the continual meal- offering, and for the continual burnt- offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin- offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood- offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;
