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Nehemiah 10:32

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We also establish for ourselves the ordinance to collect from ourselves annually one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

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Then this stone, which I have set for a pillar, will be the house of God, and from all that You give me I will surely give one-tenth to You.”

Some of the spoils won in battles they dedicated for the maintenance of the house of the Lord.

In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath or hauling loads of grain or loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all manner of burdens in order to bring them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, during the day while they were selling the food goods, I warned them.

Did not your fathers do likewise? Did not our God bring all this evil against us and against this city? Will you yet bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath?”

So I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night next to the wall? If you do so again, I will send you away by force.” From that time on they stopped coming on the Sabbath.

Moreover, I, my relatives, and my servants are loaning them money and grain. So, I urge you, cease from this practice of usury.

You also revealed to them Your Holy Sabbath and, by the hand of Moses Your servant, set in place for them the precepts, statutes, and laws.

but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

Honor the Lord with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;

For if there is a willing mind first, the gift is accepted according to what a man possesses and not according to what he does not possess.




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