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Exodus 35:4-10
Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel,“ This is the thing that the Lord has commanded.Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.“ Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
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Exodus 25:1-11
The Lord said to Moses,“ Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.“ They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.
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Psalms 16:2-3
I say to the Lord,“ You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
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Titus 3:8
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
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Ephesians 4:11-13
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
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Isaiah 42:1-7
Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:“ I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
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Isaiah 49:1-8
Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away.And he said to me,“ You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”But I said,“ I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.”And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—he says:“ It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers:“ Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”Thus says the Lord:“ In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,