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Nehemiah 10:34

King James Version (KJV)

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Nehemiah 10:34

Verse 34 of 39

Scripture focus

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring [it] into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as [it is] written in the law:

Nehemiah 10:34 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nehemiah 10:34

Theological / Devotional

The wood offering. The law of Moses merely prescribed that wood should constantly be burning on the altar, and that the priest should lay wood on it every morning (Lev. 6:12, 13). However, no directions were given concerning the procurement of the wood. This covenant made it the business of the congregation to furnish the necessary wood, and the various houses were successively responsible for this need, in the order decided by casting lots. According to Josephus (Wars ii. 17. 6) the wood needed for a year was brought in on a stated day, the 14th day of the 5th month, which was kept as a festival called “the wood carrying.”

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