¹That which was  ²from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we  ³beheld and our hands  ⁴handled, concerning the  ⁵Word of  ⁶life

(And the  ¹life was  ²manifested, and we have seen and testify and report to you  ³the eternal life, which was  ⁴with the  ⁵Father and was  ⁶manifested to us);

That which we have  ¹seen and heard we report also to you that you  ²also may have  ³fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the  ⁴Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

And these things we write that  ¹our  ²joy may be made full.

 ¹And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to you, that  ²God is  ³light and in Him is no  ⁴darkness at all.

If we say that we  ¹have fellowship  ²with Him and yet  ³walk in the darkness, we  ⁴lie and are not  ⁵practicing the  ⁶truth;

But if we walk in the light as He  ¹is in the light, we  ²have fellowship with one another, and the  ³blood of  ⁴Jesus His Son  ⁵cleanses us from every  ⁶sin.

If we say that we  ¹do not have sin,  ²we are deceiving ourselves, and the  ³truth is not in us.

If we  ¹confess our sins, He is  ²faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and  ³cleanse us from all  ⁴unrighteousness.

If we say that we  ¹have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His  ²word is not in us.

My  ¹little children,  ²these things I write to you that you  ³may not sin. And if anyone  ⁴sins, we have an  ⁵Advocate  ⁶with the  ⁷Father, Jesus Christ the  ⁸Righteous;

And He Himself is the  ¹propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for those of the  ²whole world.

 ¹And in this we  ²know that we  ³know Him, if we keep His  ⁴commandments.

He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments is a  ¹liar, and the  ²truth is not in this one;

But whoever keeps His  ¹word, truly in this one the  ²love of God has been  ³perfected. In this we know that we are  ⁴in Him.

He who says he  ¹abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as  ²He walked.

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an  ¹old commandment, which you have had  ²from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard.

Yet again a  ¹new commandment I am writing to you,  ²which is true in Him and in you because the  ³darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

He who says he is in the  ¹light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

He who loves his brother  ¹abides in the  ²light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him;

But he who  ¹hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness and does not know where he is  ²going, because the darkness has  ³blinded his eyes.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease from your evicting of My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.

You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer.

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make up your mina.

This is the heave offering which you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of  ¹wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;

And a set portion of oil (that is, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from the cor, which is ten baths, that is, a homer (for ten baths are a homer);

And one lamb out of two hundred from the flock from the well-watered pastures of Israel — for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings to make expiation for them, declares the Lord Jehovah.

All the people of the land shall be bound to give this heave offering to the prince in Israel.

But it will be the prince's portion to provide the  ¹burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make  ²expiation for the house of Israel.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, In the  ¹first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish, and you shall purify the sanctuary.

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the doorposts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.

And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally and for the simple. So you shall make expiation for the house.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the  ¹Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

And during the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Jehovah, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the  ¹feast, he shall make the same provision seven days for the sin offering, for the burnt offering, for the meal offering, and for the oil.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

And the prince shall enter through the porch of the gate from the outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

And the burnt offering that the prince shall present to Jehovah on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

And the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

And on the day of the  ¹new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.

And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs as he can afford, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

And when the prince enters, he shall come in through the porch of the gate, and he shall go out the same way.

But when the people of the land come before Jehovah at the appointed feasts, whoever enters through the north gate to worship shall go out through the south gate, and whoever enters through the south gate shall go out through the north gate; he shall not return through the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight ahead.

And the prince shall come in among them when they enter, and when they go out, they shall go out together.

And at the feasts and at the appointed feasts the meal offering shall be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

And when the prince prepares a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Jehovah, someone will open for him the gate that faces east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and someone shall shut the gate after he has gone out.

And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Jehovah daily,  ¹every morning you shall provide it.

And you shall provide with it a meal offering every morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. It is a meal offering to Jehovah continually, a perpetual statute.

Thus they shall provide the lamb and the meal offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

But if he gives some of his inheritance as a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall remain only for his sons.

Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people's inheritance, casting them out of their own possession. He shall give an inheritance to his sons from his own possession so that none of My people are scattered away from their possession.

Then He brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which face north. And there was a  ¹place there, at the rear toward the west.

And He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court, thereby sanctifying the people.

Then He brought me out into the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court; and there in each corner of the court was a  ¹court.

In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. These four enclosed courts in the corners were of one measurement.

And there was a wall all around them, around all four, and boiling places were made at the base of the walls all around.

Then He said to me, These are the boiling houses, where those who minister in the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.