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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ORDINANCE

or'-di-nans:

1. Old Testament Use:

This word generally represents chuqqah, something prescribed, enactment, usually with reference to matters of ritual. In the King James Version the same word is frequently translated by "statute" or "statutes," which is also the rendering of a similar Hebrew word, namely, choq. the Revised Version (British and American) generally retains "ordinance," but sometimes substitutes "statute" (e.g. Exodus 18:20 Psalm 99:7). In one instance the Revised Version (British and American) renders "set portion" (Ezekiel 45:14). The word generally has a religious or ceremonial significance. It is used for instance in connection with the Passover (Exodus 12:43 Numbers 9:14). According to Exodus 12:14, the Passover was "an ordinance for ever," i.e. a permanent institution. In the plural the word is often employed, along with such terms as commandments, laws, etc., with reference to the different prescriptions of the Deuteronomic and Priestly codes (Deuteronomy 6:1, 2 Leviticus 18:4).

In 11 passages (Exodus 15:25 Joshua 24:25 1 Samuel 30:25 2 Kings 17:34, 37 2 Chronicles 33:8; 2 Chronicles 35:13 Psalm 119:91 Isaiah 58:2 twice; Ezekiel 11:20) "ordinance" is the rendering of mishpaT, judgment, decision or sentence by a judge or ruler. In the Book of the Covenant (Exodus 20:22-23:33) the term "judgments" denotes civil, as contrasted with ritual, enactments. In 2 Kings 17:34 the King James Version employs "manners" and "ordinances" as renderings of this word. In 3 passages (Leviticus 18:30; Leviticus 22:9 Malachi 3:14) "ordinance" is the translation of mishmereth, "charge," which the Revised Version (British and American) restores. In one instance (Nehemiah 10:32) ordinance renders mitswah, "commandment," while in Ezra 3:10 the King James Version the phrase "after the ordinance of David" represents a Hebrew phrase which literally means "upon the hands of David," i.e. under the guidance or direction of David.

2. New Testament Use:

In the New Testament, "ordinance" renders different Greek words, namely,

(1) dikaioma, in Luke 1:6 and Hebrews 9:1, 10. The word means literally, "anything declared right"; but in these passages ceremonial and religious regulation;

(2) dogma, in Ephesians 2:15 Colossians 2:14. In the New Testament this word always means a decree or edict (Acts 17:7);

(3) paradosis, in 1 Corinthians 11:2 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "traditions";

(4) ktisis, "setting up," "institution" in 1 Peter 2:13. The term is used exclusively of the action of God. Peter implies that institutions, apparently human, such as the family and the state, are of divine origin. The same doctrine is found in Romans 13:1.

T. Lewis

Greek

1296. diatage -- institution, ordinance
... institution, ordinance. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: diatage
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-at-ag-ay') Short Definition: ordaining, ordinance ...
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1345. dikaioma -- an ordinance, a sentence of acquittal or ...
... an ordinance, a sentence of acquittal or condemnation, a righteous deed. Part of
Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: dikaioma Phonetic Spelling: (dik-ah'-yo ...
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1379. dogmatizo -- to decree, to subject oneself to an ordinance
... to decree, to subject oneself to an ordinance. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration:
dogmatizo Phonetic Spelling: (dog-mat-id'-zo) Short Definition: I subject ...
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1378. dogma -- an opinion, (a public) decree
... a public) decree. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: dogma Phonetic Spelling:
(dog'-mah) Short Definition: a decree, edict, ordinance Definition: a ...
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1778. entalma -- an injunction, ie religious precept
... precept. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: entalma Phonetic Spelling:
(en'-tal-mah) Short Definition: an injunction, ordinance, precept Definition ...
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1785. entole -- an injunction, order, command
... order, command. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: entole Phonetic
Spelling: (en-tol-ay') Short Definition: an ordinance, injunction, command ...
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3862. paradosis -- a handing down or over, a tradition
... tradition, ordinance. From paradidomi; transmission, ie (concretely) a precept;
specially, the Jewish traditionary law -- ordinance, tradition. ...
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2937. ktisis -- creation (the act or the product)
... often of the founding of a city), (a) abstr: creation, (b) concr: creation, creature,
institution; always of Divine work, (c) an institution, ordinance. ...
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907. baptizo -- to dip, sink
... submerge; to make whelmed (ie Fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of
ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2708. chuqqah -- something prescribed, an enactment, statute
... something prescribed, an enactment, statute NASB Word Usage appointed (1), customs
(5), due (1), fixed order (1), fixed patterns (1), ordinance (5), ordinances ...
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4687. mitsvah -- commandment
... what (1). which was commanded, law, ordinance, precept. From tsavah; a command,
whether human or divine (collectively, the Law) -- (which ...
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4941. mishpat -- judgment
... 62), judgments (40), just (4), justice (118), justly (3), kind (1), manner (3),
matters of justice (1), mode of life (1), order (1), ordinance (29), ordinances ...
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2706. choq -- something prescribed or owed, a statute
... boundary (2), conditions (1), custom (1), decree (5), due (5), fixed order (1),
limit (2), limits (1), measure (1), necessary food (1), ordinance (4), portion ...
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5715. eduth -- testimony
... Word Origin from ud Definition testimony NASB Word Usage admonitions (1), ordinance
(1), testimonies (13), testimony (43), warnings (1). testimony, witness. ...
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3027. yad -- hand
... X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge,
(left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our ...
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4931. mishmereth -- a guard, watch, charge, function
... charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinance, safeguard, ward, watch. Fem. Of
mishmar; watch, ie The act (custody), or (concr.) The sentry, the post; obj. ...
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Library

The Ordinance of Covenanting
The Ordinance of Covenanting. <. The Ordinance of Covenanting
John Cunningham. Produced by Stacy Brown, Jordan and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/

Letter xi. An Ordinance of Valentinianus iii.
... Letter XI. An Ordinance of Valentinianus III. An Ordinance of
Valentinianus III. (Confirming Leo's sentence upon Hilary.). ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter xi an ordinance of.htm

Essay vi. "The Way of Ancient Ordinance, Though it Winds, is yet ...
... ESSAY VI. "The way of ancient ordinance, though it winds, Is yet no devious way.�
"The way of ancient ordinance, though it winds, Is yet no devious way. ...
/.../coleridge/confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/essay vi the way of.htm

Letter viii. The Ordinance of Valentinian iii. Concerning the ...
... Letter VIII. The Ordinance of Valentinian III. concerning the Manichæans.
The Ordinance of Valentinian III. concerning the Manichæans. ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter viii the ordinance of.htm

The Ordinance of Covenanting
The Ordinance of Covenanting. <. ... Title Page. THE ORDINANCE. OF. COVENANTING.
BY. JOHN CUNNINGHAM, AM. "HE HATH COMMANDED HIS COVENANT FOR EVER." Ps. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/title page.htm

Of the Beauty of the Universe, which Becomes, by God's Ordinance ...
... Book XI. Chapter 18."Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God's
Ordinance, More Brilliant by the Opposition of Contraries. ...
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The Evil of Lust Ought not to be Ascribed to Marriage. The Three ...
... Ascribed to Marriage. The Three Good Results of the Nuptial Ordinance:
Offspring, Chastity, and the Sacramental Union. It is then ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 42 xxxvii the evil of.htm

And Jesus Knew Within Himself that his Disciples were Murmuring ...
... 1425] For all of the Jews and the Pharisees, if they wash not their [20] hands
thoroughly, eat not; for they held [1426] to the ordinance [1427] of the elders. ...
/.../hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section xx and jesus knew.htm

Conclusion
The Ordinance of Covenanting. <. ... Who, by not observing the ordinance of
Covenanting would practically say, that it ought to be abolished? ...
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Whether the Degrees of Consanguinity that are an Impediment to ...
... Now no ordinance of the Church could prevent one who is baptized from receiving
the baptismal character, if he be capable of receiving it according to the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the degrees of consanguinity.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.

2. (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.

3. (n.) An established rite or ceremony.

4. (n.) Rank; order; station.

5. (n.) Ordnance; cannon.

Thesaurus

Ordinance (89 Occurrences)
... a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp.,
a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance. ...
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Prescribed (31 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 5:10 And he shall prepare the second for a burnt-offering, according to
the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his ...
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Libations (29 Occurrences)
... burnt-offering of the month, and its present, and the continual burnt-offering,
and its present, and their libations, according to their ordinance, for sweet ...
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Drink-offerings (31 Occurrences)
... and the meal-offering thereof, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering
thereof, and their drink-offerings, according unto their ordinance, for a ...
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Specified (9 Occurrences)
... 29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; (See NIV ...
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Bulls (68 Occurrences)
... 18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; (WEB NAS ...
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Regulations (37 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV NIV). Exodus 12:43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance
of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, (See NIV). ...
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Lutheran
... THE ORDINANCE 1. The Teaching of Scripture (1) An Authoritative Command (2) A Clear
Declaration of the Object in View (3) A Definite Promise (4) A Plain ...
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Doctrine (52 Occurrences)
... THE ORDINANCE 1. The Teaching of Scripture (1) An Authoritative Command (2) A Clear
Declaration of the Object in View (3) A Definite Promise (4) A Plain ...
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Rams (81 Occurrences)
... 18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,
and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; (WEB KJV ...
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Bible Concordance

Ordinance (89 Occurrences)

Romans 1:32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
(WEB ASV NAS)

Romans 8:4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(WEB ASV)

Romans 13:2 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 Peter 2:13 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; Peter's Second Letter
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

Exodus 12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 12:17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 12:24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 12:43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Exodus 13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 15:25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Exodus 27:21 In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order, to burn from evening to morning before the LORD; it shall be a statute for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
(See NIV)

Exodus 28:43 Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.
(See NIV)

Exodus 29:9 And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.
(See NIV)

Exodus 30:21 Their hands and feet are to be washed. so that they may be safe from death: this is an order to them for ever; to him and his seed from generation to generation.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 3:17 Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 5:10 He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as a due for ever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the LORD made by fire; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 6:22 And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from among his sons shall offer it, it is a due for ever; it shall be wholly made to smoke unto the LORD.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 9:16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Leviticus 10:9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 16:29 And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:
(See NIV)

Leviticus 16:31 It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year.' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 17:7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
(KJV WBS)

Leviticus 22:9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
(KJV WBS)

Leviticus 23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 23:21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 23:31 You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 24:3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
(See NIV)

Numbers 9:12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
(Root in KJV DBY WBS)

Numbers 9:14 "'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
(KJV WBS NIV)

Numbers 15:15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
(KJV WBS NIV)

Numbers 15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.'"
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 18:8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
(See NIV)

Numbers 19:2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 19:10 He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.
(See NIV)

Numbers 19:21 It shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until even.
(See NIV)

Numbers 27:11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 29:37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Numbers 31:21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
(KJV WBS)

Numbers 35:29 "'These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 30:25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 4:28 And the barley and the straw, for horses and for dromedaries, they bring in unto the place where they are, each according to his ordinance.
(YLT)

1 Kings 18:28 And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, till a flowing of blood 'is' on them;
(YLT)

2 Kings 11:14 and looketh, and lo, the king is standing by the pillar, according to the ordinance, and the heads, and the trumpets, 'are' by the king, and all the people of the land are rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and Athaliah rendeth her garments, and calleth, 'Conspiracy! conspiracy!'
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 6:32 and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service.
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 15:13 For because you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance."
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS)

1 Chronicles 23:31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

1 Chronicles 24:19 This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)

2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:7 He made the ten lampstands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT)

2 Chronicles 4:20 and the lampstands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT)

2 Chronicles 8:14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 30:16 And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites,
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 35:13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 35:25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezra 3:4 They kept the feast of tents, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Ezra 3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
(KJV WBS)

Nehemiah 8:18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Nehemiah 11:23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
(See JPS)

Psalms 81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
(KJV WBS)

Psalms 119:160 All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV)

Psalms 122:4 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
(WEB ASV NAS)

Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
(KJV WBS)

Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
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Jeremiah 5:4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
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Jeremiah 5:5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
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Jeremiah 5:22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
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Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.
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Jeremiah 30:18 Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I turn back 'to' the captivity of the tents of Jacob, And his dwelling places I pity, And the city hath been built on its heap, And the palace according to its ordinance remaineth.
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Ezekiel 45:14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
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Ezekiel 46:14 You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
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Daniel 6:7 All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.
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Daniel 6:15 Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.
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Zephaniah 2:3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.
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Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
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Ordinance

Ordinance: A Decree

Ordinance: Insufficiency of, for Salvation

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