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Proverbs 3:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Honour the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

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On the first day of the week,  each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he is prospering, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.


‘Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.


The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honours him.


‘You must not hold back offerings  from your harvest or your vats. Give me the firstborn of your sons.


‘Bring the best firstfruits  of your land to the house of the Lord your God. ‘You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.’


This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.’


He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.


A generous person will be enriched, and the one who gives a drink of water will receive water.


You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with incense.


Also observe the Festival of Harvest  with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering  , at the end of the year, when you gather your produce  from the field.


But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you;  I am the Lord your God.


You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough  as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing-floor.


Then the Levite, who has no portion or inheritance among you, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates may come, eat, and be satisfied.  And the Lord your God will bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.


The chief priest Azariah, of the household of Zadok,  answered him, ‘Since they began bringing the offering to the Lord’s temple, we have been eating and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the Lord has blessed his people; this abundance is what is left over.’


In the same way the man with two earned two more.





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