Deuteronomy 16:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

A tribute

Proverbs 3:9

According

General references

Leviticus 23:15

Deuteronomy 16:9

Bible References

A tribute

Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in the feast of weeks and in the feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

But if he be not able to bring a sheep, then let him bring for his trespass which he hath sinned, two turtle doves or two young pigeons unto the LORD; one for a sin offering and another for a burnt offering.

But and if she be not able to bring a sheep, then let her bring two turtles or two young pigeons: the one for the burnt offering, and the other for the sin offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.'"

And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again,

Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstlings of all thine increase:

According

but every man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which he hath given thee.

The blessing of the LORD, maketh rich men; as for careful travail, it doth nothing thereto.

Who can tell whether the Lord will turn and have compassion and shall leave after him a blessing? Sacrifice, and drink offering unto the LORD your God.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day forth, and how it hath gone with you afore - before there was laid one stone upon another in the temple of the LORD -

Bring every tithe into my barn, that there may be meat in mine house: and prove me withal, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven unto you, and pour you out a blessing with plenteousness.

Upon some Sunday, let every one of you put aside at home, and lay up whatsoever he thinketh meet, that there be no gatherings when I come.

And I give counsel hereto: For this is expedient for you, which began - not to do only, but also to will - a year ago.

Wherefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, to come before hand unto you, for to prepare your good blessing promised afore, that it might be ready: so that it be a blessing, and not a defrauding.

General references

"'And ye shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath: even from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven weeks complete:

Then reckon the seven weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the sickle beginneth in the corn,