And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.

And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:

And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.

Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt); and let no one come before me without an offering:

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?

Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.

But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?

But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body.

And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.

And to those in Arara and Eshtemoa

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:

Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.

An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Then go back to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made ruler over the towns of Judah, and make your living-place with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the armed men gave him food and some money and let him go.

Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.

And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out,

And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,

So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

Making it my purpose not to take the good news where Christ was named, so that my work might not be resting on that of others;

For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.