Leviticus 27:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

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  • Gen 28:22 : 22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.
  • 2 Chr 31:5-6 : 5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. 6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.
  • Neh 13:12 : 12 Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.
  • Gen 14:20 : 20 And let the Most High God be praised, who has given into your hands those who were against you. Then Abram gave him a tenth of all the goods he had taken.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
  • Luke 11:42 : 42 But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
  • Luke 18:12 : 12 Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
  • 2 Chr 31:12 : 12 And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.
  • Neh 12:44 : 44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
  • Neh 13:5 : 5 Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.
  • Neh 10:37-38 : 37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land. 38 And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;
  • Num 18:21-24 : 21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. 22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin. 23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. 24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
  • Deut 12:5-6 : 5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; 6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
  • Deut 14:22-23 : 22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year. 23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.
  • Heb 7:5-9 : 5 And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham. 6 But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking. 7 But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater. 8 Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living. 9 And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it;
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation. 10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 27:31-32
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    31 And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.

    32 And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.

  • 35 And to take the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of every sort of tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

  • 37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

  • Lev 19:23-25
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    23 And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

    24 And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

    25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 27:21-23
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    21 But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

    22 And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

    23 Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.

  • 75%

    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

    23 And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

  • 26 For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.

  • Num 18:13-14
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    13 The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.

    14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.

  • Lev 27:28-29
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    28 But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

    29 Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.

  • 9 And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.

  • Num 18:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 And the Lord said to Moses,

    26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

    27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

  • 12 For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

  • 26 But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

  • 10 So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:

  • 13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

  • 17 If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.

  • Num 5:9-10
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    9 And every offering lifted up of all the holy things which the children of Israel give to the priest, will be his.

    10 And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

  • 9 Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

  • Num 18:29-30
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    29 From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.

    30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

  • 14 And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord.

  • Deut 26:1-2
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    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

    2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.

  • 14 The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.

  • 19 And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.

  • 15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

  • 10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

  • 21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.

  • 3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 31:5-6
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    5 And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

    6 And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.

  • 28 At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:

  • 7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • 10 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;

  • 10 And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.

  • 24 Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

  • 2 Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

  • 30 And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.