Verse 9

Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase:

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  • Exod 23:19 : 19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Phil 4:17-18 : 17 Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. 18 But I have all and abound; I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
  • Exod 22:29 : 29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
  • 1 Cor 16:2 : 2 On the first day of the week, let each of you set aside and store up as God has prospered him, so there will be no collections when I come.
  • Exod 34:26 : 26 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
  • Deut 26:2-9 : 2 That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I declare this day to the LORD my God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians mistreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, even a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me. And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God: 11 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled; 13 Then you shall say before the LORD your God, I have removed the sacred things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead: but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.
  • Hag 1:4-9 : 4 Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins? 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes. 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, 'In what way have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it.
  • Mark 14:7-8 : 7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
  • Exod 35:20-29 : 20 And all the assembly of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whose spirit made him willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and necklaces, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered, offered an offering of gold to the LORD. 23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. 24 Everyone that did offer an offering of silver and bronze brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought what they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. 27 And the leaders brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. 29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering to the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
  • Num 7:2-9 : 2 That the leaders of Israel, the heads of the house of their fathers, who were the leaders of the tribes, and who were over those who were numbered, offered: 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two leaders, and for each one an ox; and they brought them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 5 Take it from them, that they may be used for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service. 6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service: 8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonging to them was that they should carry it upon their shoulders. 10 And the leaders offered for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed, even the leaders offered their offering before the altar. 11 And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each leader on his day, for the dedication of the altar. 12 And he who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: 13 And his offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 14 One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense: 15 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 18 On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, offered: 19 He offered for his offering one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 20 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 21 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar. 24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, leader of the children of Zebulun, offered: 25 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 27 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. 30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, leader of the children of Reuben, offered: 31 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 32 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 33 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. 36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, leader of the children of Simeon, offered: 37 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 39 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, leader of the children of Gad, offered: 43 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 44 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 45 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, leader of the children of Ephraim, offered: 49 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 50 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 51 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. 54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, leader of the children of Manasseh, offered: 55 His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 56 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 57 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, leader of the children of Benjamin, offered: 61 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 62 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 63 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. 66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, leader of the children of Dan, offered: 67 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 68 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 69 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, leader of the children of Asher, offered: 73 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 74 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 75 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. 78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the children of Naphtali, offered: 79 His offering was one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering: 80 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense: 81 One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: 82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: 83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 84 This was the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed by the leaders of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons: 85 Each silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: 86 The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels each, according to the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels. 87 All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve young bulls, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their grain offering: and the kids of the goats for the sin offering twelve. 88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty-four young bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar after it was anointed. 89 And when Moses went into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then he heard the voice of One speaking to him from the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim: and He spoke to him.
  • Num 31:50-54 : 50 We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, what every man has found, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all crafted jewels. 52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. 53 (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting, as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
  • 2 Cor 8:2-3 : 2 How in a severe test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the riches of their generosity. 3 For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they were willing of themselves;
  • 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that through his poverty you might become rich.
  • 1 John 3:17-18 : 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
  • Luke 14:13-14 : 13 But when you give a feast, call the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind: 14 And you shall be blessed; for they cannot repay you: for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.
  • Gen 28:22 : 22 And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that you give me I will surely give the tenth to you.
  • Gen 14:18-21 : 18 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 20 And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all." 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the goods for yourself."
  • Mark 14:10-21 : 10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray him to them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him. 12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said to him, Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover? 13 And he sent forth two of his disciples and said to them, Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. 14 And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest room where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? 15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared; there make ready for us. 16 And his disciples went forth and came into the city, and found as he had said to them; and they prepared the Passover. 17 And in the evening he came with the twelve. 18 And as they sat and ate, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you who eats with me shall betray me. 19 And they began to be sorrowful and to say to him one by one, Is it I? And another said, Is it I? 20 And he answered and said to them, It is one of the twelve who dips with me in the dish. 21 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed; good were it for that man if he had never been born.