Deuteronomy 16:10

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

⁹ Seven weeks, shalt thou count unto thee, - from the beginning of thrusting in the sickle into the standing corn, shalt thou begin to count, seven weeks. ¹⁰ So shalt thou keep the festival of weeks unto Yahweh thy God, in the measure of the freewill offering of thy hand which thou shalt give, - as Yahweh thy God shall bless thee. ¹¹ So shalt thou rejoice before Yahweh thy God - thou, and thy son and thy daughter and thy servant and thy handmaid, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow who are in thy midst, - in the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there.

Feast of Weeks

Freewill Offering

Give to the Lord

Presence of the Lord

To the Lord

Jehovah

1 Corinthians 16:2

Upon the first of the week, let, each one of you, put, by itself, in store, as he may be prospering, - lest, as soon as I come, then, collections, should be in progress.

Leviticus 5:7

And, if his hand cannot reach sufficient for a lamb, then shall he bring in to bear his guilt - for that he hath sinned - two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons unto Yahweh, - one for a sin-bearer, and one for an ascending-sacrifice.

Leviticus 12:8

But, if her hand findeth not sufficiency for a lamb, then shall she take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, one for an ascending-sacrifice and one for a sin-bearer, - so shall the priest put a propitiatory-covering over her, and she shall he clean.

Leviticus 25:26

And, when, any man, hath no kinsman, - but his own hand getteth enough, so that he findeth what is needed to redeem it,

Numbers 31:28

Then shalt thou levy a tribute unto Yahweh - from the men of war, who went forth in the host, one living thing, out of five hundred, - of the human beings, and of the herd, and of the asses and of the flock:

Numbers 31:37

and so, the tribute unto Yahweh, out of the flock, was - six hundred and seventy-five;

Deuteronomy 16:16-17

Three times in the year, shall each one of thy males see the face of Yahweh thy God, in the place which he shall choose, at the festival of unleavened cakes and at the festival of weeks and at the festival of booths, - and none shall see the face of Yahweh empty-handed:

Proverbs 3:9-10

Honour thou Yahweh, with thy substance, and with the firstfruit of all thine increase;

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of Yahweh, itself maketh rich, and he addeth no grievance therewith.

Joel 2:14

Who knoweth, he may turn and grieve, - and leave behind him, a blessing, a meal-offering and a drink-offering, to Yahweh your God?

Haggai 2:15-19

Now, therefore, I pray you apply your heart, from this day and upwards, - So long as there had not been laid one stone upon another in the temple of Yahweh,

Malachi 3:10-11

Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room.

2 Corinthians 8:10

And, a judgment, herein, do I give, - for, this, unto you, is profitable, - who, indeed, not only of the doing, but of the desiring, made for yourselves a beginning a year ago; -

2 Corinthians 8:12

For, if the forwardness is set forth, according to what one may have, he is well approved, not according to what one hath not.

2 Corinthians 9:5-11

Necessary, therefore, I regarded it, to exhort the brethren that they would go forward unto you, and make up beforehand your previously-promised blessing. The same, to be ready - thus, as a blessing, and not as of constraint.