Genesis 47:24

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

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 14:21

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the captives; the goods you may keep.”

Genesis 28:22

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.”

Genesis 41:34

Let Pharaoh act and appoint overseers for the land to organize it during the seven years of abundance.

Genesis 47:23

Joseph told the people: “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh, here is your seed for sowing the land.

Genesis 47:25

“You have saved our lives!” they answered. “We have found favor with my lord; now we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Psalm 112:5

It is good for the man gracious in lending, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 41:1

For the leader. A psalm of David.

Leviticus 27:30

All tithes of the land, whether in grain from the fields or in fruit from the trees, belong to the Lord; they are sacred to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:32

The tithes of the herd and the flock, every tenth animal that passes under the herdsman’s rod, shall be sacred to the Lord.

Numbers 18:21

To the Levites, however, I hereby assign all tithes in Israel as their heritage in recompense for the labor they perform, the labor pertaining to the tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 14:22

Each year you shall tithe all the produce of your seed that grows in the field;

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have finished setting aside all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithes, and have given them to the Levite, the resident alien, the orphan and the widow, that they may eat and be satisfied in your own communities,