◄ 1 Chronicles 23:31 ►
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Good News Translation
and whenever offerings to the LORD are burned on the Sabbath, the New Moon Festival, and other festivals. Rules were made specifying the number of Levites assigned to do this work each time. The Levites were assigned the duty of worshiping the LORD for all time.

New Revised Standard Version
and whenever burnt offerings are offered to the LORD on sabbaths, new moons, and appointed festivals, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
They must also give thanks and sing praises when sacrifices are offered on each Sabbath, as well as during New Moon Festivals and other religious feasts. There must always be enough Levites on duty at the temple to do everything that needs to be done.

New American Bible
and at every sacrifice of burnt offerings to the LORD on sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, in such numbers as are prescribed, they must always be present before the LORD

Douay-Rheims Bible
As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.

in the sabbaths

Leviticus 23:24,39 Say to the children of Israel: The seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall keep a sabbath, a memorial, with the sound of trumpets, and it shall be called holy. . . .

Numbers 10:10 If at any time you shall have a banquet, and on your festival days, and on the first days of your months, you shall sound the trumpets over the holocausts, and the sacrifices of peace offerings, that they may be to you for a remembrance of your God. I am the Lord your God.

Psalm 81:1-4 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. [2] Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. . . .

Isaiah 1:12,14 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? . . .

set feasts

Leviticus 23:1-17 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Numbers 28:1-29:40 The Lord also said to Moses: . . .

Context
Levite Duties Revised
…30And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening, 31As well in the oblation of the holocausts of the Lord, as in the sabbaths and in the new moons, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number and ceremonies prescribed for every thing, continually before the Lord.32And let them keep the observances of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the ceremonies of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, that they may minister in the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Leviticus 23:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall call holy.

2 Kings 4:23
And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

1 Chronicles 23:30
And the Levites are to stand in the morning to give thanks, and to sing praises to the Lord: and in like manner in the evening,

Isaiah 1:13
Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

1 Chronicles 23:30
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