Day 1: Numbers 7:1-17

¹ It was on the day that Mosheh finished erecting the Tabernacle that he anointed it, sanctified it and all its utensils, and the Altar and all its utensils, and he had anointed and sanctified them. ² The leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers household, brought offerings: they were the leaders of the tribes, they were those who stand at the countings. ³ They brought their offering before YaHVaH; six covered wagons and twelve oxen – a wagon for each two leaders and an ox for each – and they brought them before the Tabernacle. ⁴ YaHVaH said to Mosheh, ⁵ “Take from them, and they shall be to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting; you shall give them to the Levites, each man according to his work.” ⁶ So Mosheh took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. ⁷ Two of the wagons and four of the oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, in accordance with their work. ⁸ And four of the wagons and eight of the oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, in accordance with their work, under the authority of Ithamar, son of Aharon the Kohen. ⁹ And to the sons of Kohath he did not give; since the sacred service was upon them, they carried on the shoulder. ¹⁰ Then the leaders brought forward offerings for the dedication of the Altar on the day it was anointed, and the leaders brought their offering before the Altar. ¹¹ YaHVaH said to Mosheh, “One leader each day, one leader each day shall they bring their offering to the dedication of the Altar.” ¹² The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nachshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Yehudah. ¹³ His offering was: one silver bowl, its weight a hundred and thirty [shekels]; and one silver basin of seventy shekels in the sacred shekel; both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a meal-offering; ¹⁴ one gold ladle of ten [shekels] filled with incense; ¹⁵ one young bull, one ram, one sheep in its first year for a burnt-offering; ¹⁶ one he-goat for a sin-offering; ¹⁷ and for a feast peace-offering: two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, five sheep in their first year – this is the offering of Nachshon son of Amminadab. (Tanach, Stone Edition). Note: Names in bold blue text have been changed from actual English text to proper spelling according to the Hebrew text.

and 1 Maccabees 2:19-22, 27-28

¹⁹ Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments: ²⁰ Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers. ²¹ God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. ²² We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left. … ²⁷ And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous for the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me. ²⁸ So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city. (Apocrypha, Authorized (King James) Version).