Bible passages

Numbers 28:1–29:40

Daily and Festival Offerings

This passage gives ordered instructions for offerings at daily, weekly, monthly, and festival times.

Numbers 30:1–16

Making and Keeping Vows

Numbers 30:1–16 explains how vows and oaths were to be handled among Israel. The passage focuses on spoken promises made to Yahweh and on when those words stood, were stopped, or were made void under these statutes.

Numbers 33:50–35:34

Canaan's Boundaries, Leaders and Refuge Cities

This passage sets out how Israel was to live in Canaan: removing idol worship, receiving defined tribal land, appointing leaders, giving towns to Levites, and handling killings with refuge cities and formal judgement.

Deuteronomy 4:1–5:4; Deuteronomy 5:22–11:32

Moses Calls Israel to Faithfulness

Moses calls Israel to listen carefully, remember what Yahweh has done, and stay faithful in the land they are about to enter.

Deuteronomy 12:1–16:17

Worship, Giving and the Festivals in Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 12:1 to 16:17 gives laws for worship, food, giving, release and yearly feasts.

Deuteronomy 16:18–19:21

Leaders, Witnesses and Justice

This law passage sets out how Israel was to appoint leaders, test evidence and deal with serious wrongdoing in the land Yahweh gives.

Deuteronomy 20:1–26:19

War, Family and Community Laws

Deuteronomy 20:1 to 26:19 gathers many laws for Israel’s life in the land, from battle and households to justice, worship and care for vulnerable people.

Deuteronomy 27:1–30:20

Covenant Blessings, Curses and the Choice of Life

Deuteronomy 27 to 30 gathers Moses’ covenant teaching into a clear choice. Israel is told to remember Yahweh’s law, hear blessings and curses, and understand that life in the land is tied to loving and obeying Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 31:9–13; Deuteronomy 31:24–29

Reading and Preserving the Law

This passage shows Moses writing the law, giving it to priests and elders, and commanding that it be read to all Israel.

1 Chronicles 6:1–81

Levi, Aaron and the Temple Musicians

1 Chronicles 6 reads like a family record, but it also shows how Levi’s family was connected with priestly work, music in worship, and places to live.

1 Chronicles 8:1–9:44

Saul's Family and the People of Jerusalem

This passage is a long family record, but it does more than list names. It traces Benjamin’s lines, repeats Saul’s family, and then shows who lived in Jerusalem and served in God’s house.

Ezra 2:1–70; Nehemiah 7:4–73

The Returning Exiles and Their Gifts

These chapters are long community records, but they show something important. God’s people who returned were counted carefully, grouped carefully, and settled carefully.

Ezra 8:1–14

The Families Who Returned with Ezra

Ezra 8:1–14 is a list of the family leaders and counted men who went up with Ezra from Babylon.

Ezra 10:18–44

The Intermarriage List in Ezra

Ezra 10:18–44 is a formal list of names. It records people from different groups who had married foreign women, and it notes a response taken by some of them.

Nehemiah 3:1–32

The Builders of Jerusalem's Wall

Nehemiah 3 is a careful record of who repaired Jerusalem’s wall, naming workers, places and sections so the rebuilding can be traced from gate to gate.

Nehemiah 11:1–12:26

Jerusalem's New Residents and Temple Servants

Nehemiah 11:1–12:26 records who settled in Jerusalem, where others lived, and which priestly and Levitical families served.