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Exodus 35:4-10
Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites,“ This is the word that the LORD has commanded:‘ Take an offering for the LORD. Let everyone who has a willing heart bring an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, bronze,blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, fine linen, goat’s hair,ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,olive oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,onyx stones, and other gems for mounting on the ephod and the breastpiece.Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the LORD has commanded:
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Exodus 25:1-11
The LORD spoke to Moses:“ Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair,ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense,onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.According to all that I am showing you– the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings– you must make it exactly so.“ They are to make an ark of acacia wood– its length is to be three feet nine inches, its width two feet three inches, and its height two feet three inches.You are to overlay it with pure gold– both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.
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Psalms 16:2-3
I say to the LORD,“ You are the Lord, my only source of well-being.”As for God’s chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much–
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Titus 3:8
This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.
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Ephesians 4:11-13
It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God– a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature.
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Isaiah 42:1-7
“ Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.He will not cry out or shout; he will not publicize himself in the streets.A crushed reed he will not break, a dim wick he will not extinguish; he will faithfully make just decrees.He will not grow dim or be crushed before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait in anticipation for his decrees.”This is what the true God, the LORD, says– the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:“ I, the LORD, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations,to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.
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Isaiah 49:1-8
Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.He said to me,“ You are my servant, Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.”But I thought,“ I have worked in vain; I have expended my energy for absolutely nothing.” But the LORD will vindicate me; my God will reward me.So now the LORD says, the one who formed me from birth to be his servant– he did this to restore Jacob to himself, so that Israel might be gathered to him; and I will be honored in the LORD’s sight, for my God is my source of strength–he says,“ Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”This is what the LORD, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers:“ Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”This is what the LORD says:“ At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property.