'Ordinances' in the Bible

We have acted corruptly toward You and have not kept the commands, statutes, and ordinances You gave Your servant Moses.

You came down on Mount Sinai,and spoke to them from heaven.You gave them impartial ordinances, reliable instructions,and good statutes and commands.

You warned them to turn back to Your law,but they acted arrogantlyand would not obey Your commands.They sinned against Your ordinances,which a person will live by if he does them.They stubbornly resisted,stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of Yahweh our Lord.

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;