Genesis 28:22

New American Bible - revised edition

This stone that I have set up as a sacred pillar will be the house of God. Of everything you give me, I will return a tenth part to you without fail.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:8

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name.

Genesis 14:20

And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and there he invoked by name the Lord, God the Eternal.

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said: “How awesome this place is! This is nothing else but the house of God, the gateway to heaven!”

Genesis 33:20

He set up an altar there and invoked “El, the God of Israel.”

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob: Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.

Genesis 35:7

There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Genesis 47:24

But when the harvest is in, you must give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, while you keep four-fifths as seed for your fields and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your children.”

Genesis 47:26

Thus Joseph made it a statute for the land of Egypt, which is still in force, that a fifth of its produce should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not pass over to Pharaoh. Israel Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh.

Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, That there may be food in my house. Put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, And see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!