Nehemiah 10:35

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We cast lots to determine when our families—the priests, Levites, and the people—would bring wood to the house of our God at appointed times each year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God as it is written in the Law.

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  • Exod 23:19 : 19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
  • Deut 26:2 : 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His name,
  • Exod 34:26 : 26 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
  • Num 18:12 : 12 'I give you the finest olive oil, new wine, and grain—the firstfruits they offer to the LORD.'
  • Lev 19:23-26 : 23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. 25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will increase. I am the LORD your God. 26 Do not eat any meat with the blood still in it. Do not practice divination or seek omens.
  • Num 18:2 : 2 Bring your brothers from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to join you and assist you while you and your sons serve before the tent of the testimony.
  • 2 Chr 31:3-9 : 3 The king contributed from his own possessions for the burnt offerings: the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, new moons, and appointed festivals, as written in the Law of the Lord. 4 He also commanded the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves fully to the Law of the Lord. 5 As soon as the word spread, the Israelites generously brought the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything. 6 The people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks, and of the holy things dedicated to the Lord their God. They piled them in heaps. 7 In the third month, they began to lay the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month. 8 When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and blessed His people Israel. 9 Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps. 10 Azariah, the chief priest from the family of Zadok, answered, 'Since the people began to bring their contributions to the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the Lord has blessed His people; this great amount is what is left over.'
  • Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and from the firstfruits of all your produce. 10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord of Hosts, and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. 11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine in the field will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord of Hosts. 12 All nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of Hosts.

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  • Neh 10:36-39
    4 verses
    87%

    36We also pledged to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit from every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD.

    37We agreed to bring the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.

    38We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of all our trees, our new wine, and oil to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God. Additionally, we will bring a tithe of our land to the Levites, for they collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.

    39A priest, a descendant of Aaron, will accompany the Levites when they collect the tithes, and they will bring a tenth of the collected tithes to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the treasury.

  • Deut 26:10
    83%

    10And now, behold, I bring the firstfruits of the soil that You, LORD, have given me.' You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

  • Deut 26:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,

    2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His name,

  • Lev 23:10
    79%

    10Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving you and you harvest its crops, you must bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

  • 2 Chr 31:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5As soon as the word spread, the Israelites generously brought the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.

    6The people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks, and of the holy things dedicated to the Lord their God. They piled them in heaps.

  • Prov 3:9
    78%

    9Honor the LORD with your wealth and from the firstfruits of all your produce.

  • Num 18:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12'I give you the finest olive oil, new wine, and grain—the firstfruits they offer to the LORD.'

    13'The first ripe produce of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat of it.'

  • Neh 10:32-34
    3 verses
    77%

    32We also pledged not to buy the merchandise or any grain that the peoples of the land brought to sell on the Sabbath or on any holy day. We agreed to let the land rest during the seventh year and cancel every debt.

    33We took on ourselves the obligation to give a third of a shekel each year for the service of the house of our God.

    34This includes the bread of the Presence, the regular grain offerings, and burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the appointed feasts, as well as the holy offerings, sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

  • Deut 18:4
    77%

    4You shall give him the firstfruits of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep.

  • Deut 12:6
    77%

    6Bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, what you have vowed to give, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    16Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of your work, of what you sow in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the field.

  • Lev 27:30
    76%

    30A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

  • Ezek 44:30
    75%

    30The best of all the firstfruits and every sacred contribution of yours shall belong to the priests. You are also to give the priests the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your household.

  • Deut 14:22
    75%

    22Be sure to set aside a tenth of all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.

  • Exod 22:29
    74%

    29Do the same with your cattle and your sheep; let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Lev 19:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

    25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will increase. I am the LORD your God.

  • Neh 13:12
    74%

    12All Judah then brought the tithes of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storerooms.

  • Num 18:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29Out of all your gifts, you must present the very best part, the sacred portion, as an offering to the LORD.

    30Say to the Levites: When you present the best of it, it will be credited to you, as if it were the produce of the threshing floor and the produce of the wine press.

  • Lev 23:17
    73%

    17Bring from your dwellings two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour and baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.

  • Num 15:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19and you eat the bread of the land, you shall present an offering to the Lord.

    20You must bring the first portion of your dough as an offering to the Lord, like the contribution from the threshing floor, so you shall offer it.

    21From the first of your dough, you shall give a contribution to the Lord for all your generations.

  • Exod 34:22
    72%

    22Observe the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

  • Mal 3:10
    72%

    10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord of Hosts, and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

  • Lev 2:12
    72%

    12You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

  • Deut 16:10
    72%

    10Celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.

  • Neh 13:31
    71%

    31I also made provision for the wood offering at appointed times and for the firstfruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

  • Deut 14:28
    71%

    28At the end of every three years, bring out a tenth of all your produce for that year and store it within your towns.

  • Num 18:27
    71%

    27Your contribution will be credited to you as though it were the grain from the threshing floor or the fullness from the wine press.

  • Deut 1:25
    71%

    25Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it back to us. And they reported, 'The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good.'

  • Gen 4:3
    71%

    3Over time, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD.

  • Lev 2:14
    71%

    14If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.

  • Amos 4:4
    71%

    4Come to Bethel and transgress, go to Gilgal and multiply sins; bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every three days.

  • Exod 34:26
    71%

    26Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

  • Deut 12:11
    71%

    11Then to the place the Lord your God chooses for His name to dwell, you shall bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and all the choice offerings you have vowed to the Lord.

  • Deut 15:20
    71%

    20Each year, you and your household shall eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place He will choose.

  • Num 28:26
    71%

    26On the day of firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work.

  • Num 15:3
    70%

    3and if you present an offering by fire to the Lord—a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering, or at your appointed festivals—to create a pleasing aroma for the Lord, from the herd or the flock,

  • Exod 13:11
    70%

    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your ancestors, and gives it to you,

  • Lev 27:32
    70%

    32Every tithe of the herd or flock, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the LORD.