H9001–/וַ–v

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְשַׂמְתָּ֤ (וְ) ve. “and”

And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,

וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ (וְ) ve. “and”

To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let

וַיָּפֵ֙רוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

וַתְּשִׂימ֗וּן (וַ) va. “and”

But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.

וְנָשְׂא֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their serva

וְהָי֤וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.

וְהָי֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָשְׂא֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.

וְנָֽשְׂאוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.

וְנָתַתִּ֣י (וְ) ve. “and”

But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the

וְעָמְד֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.

וְשָׁמְר֖וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when they come in by the doorways of the inner square, they are to be clothed in linen robes; there is to be no wool on them while they are doing my work in the doorway of the inner square and inside the house.

וְהָיָ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.

וְהִנִּ֥יחוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלָֽבְשׁוּ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And they are to have no heritage; I am their heritage: you are to give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

וְהָיְתָ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.

וְהָיָ֨ה (וְ) ve. “and”

A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

וְֽהָיָ֡ה (וְֽ) Ve. “and”

This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;

וְשִׁשִּׁיתֶם֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean.

וְחִטֵּאתָ֖ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square.

וְלָקַ֨ח (וְ) ve. “and”וְנָתַן֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.

וְכִפַּרְתֶּ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.

וְעָשָׂ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway

וּבָ֣א (וּ) u. “and”וְעָמַד֙ (וְ) ve. “and”וְעָשׂ֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוָ֛ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָצָ֑א (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons.

וְהִשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when the ruler makes a free offering, a burned offering or a peace-offering freely given to the Lord, the doorway looking to the east is to be made open for him, and he is to make his burned offering and his peace-offerings as he does on the Sabbath

וּפָ֣תַֽח (וּ) u. “and”וְעָשָׂ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְיָצָ֛א (וְ) ve. “and”וְסָגַ֥ר (וְ) ve. “and”

And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.

וְהָ֤יְתָה (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׁבַ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”