Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.
In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;
And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons,
It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.
The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.
And David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the new moon, and I will not be seated with the king at his table: but let me go to a safe place in the country till the evening.
Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and it will be seen that you are not present, for there will be no one in your seat.
So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.
And on the day after the new moon, that is, the second day, there was still no one in David's seat: and Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the feast yesterday or today?
And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.
And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.
At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;
See! I am building a house for the name of the Lord my God, to be made holy to him, where perfumes of sweet spices will be burned before him, and the holy bread will be placed at all times, and burned offerings will be offered morning and evening, on the sabbaths and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts of the Lord our God. This is a law for ever to Israel.
Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.
And he gave the king's part of his private property for the burned offerings, that is, for the morning and evening offerings, and the offerings for the sabbath and the new moons and the regular feasts, as it is recorded in the law of the Lord.
And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.
For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.
In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.
The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,
For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.
And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.
If you keep the sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.
And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.
And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.
This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.
And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the sabbaths and at the new moons.
And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
The earth is troubled before them and the heavens are shaking: the sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining:
The sun will be made dark and the moon turned to blood, before the great day of the Lord comes, a day to be feared.
The sun and the moon have become dark, and the stars keep back their shining.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.
But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,
And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;
The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;
And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a A woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
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