So this stone which I set up as a memorial stone will become God’s House, and of everything You provide me I will definitely give a tenth of it to You.”
Nehemiah 10:32 - Tree of Life Version When the peoples of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain on Shabbat, we will not buy from them on Shabbat or on a holy day. Also every seventh year we will forego working the land and the debt of every hand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also we pledge ourselves to pay yearly a third of a shekel for the service expenses of the house of our God [which are]: American Standard Version (1901) Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; Common English Bible We pledge ourselves to keep the commandment and pay one-third of a shekel each year for the service of our God’s house, Catholic Public Domain Version And we established precepts over ourselves, so that we would give one third part of a shekel each year for the work of the house of our God, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a side every year for the work of the house of our God: |
So this stone which I set up as a memorial stone will become God’s House, and of everything You provide me I will definitely give a tenth of it to You.”
They dedicated some of the plunder taken in battles to maintain the House of Adonai.
In those days, I saw in Judah some people treading winepresses on the Shabbat, some bringing and loading heaps of grain on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and various other burdens, bringing them into Jerusalem on the Shabbat day. So I warned them about selling food on that day.
Didn’t your ancestors do exactly the same causing our God to bring all this evil upon us and upon this city? So now you are bringing even more wrath upon Israel by profaning Yom Shabbat.”
But I warned them and said to them, “Why are you camping next to the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time they no longer came on the Shabbat.
Even I, my brothers, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let this usury stop, now!
You made known to them Your holy Shabbat and ordained for them mitzvot, statutes and Torah by the hand of Your servant Moses.
But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. Whatever they leave behind, the animals of the field may eat. You are to deal with your vineyard and your olive grove in the same way.
Honor Adonai with your wealth and with the first of your entire harvest.
For if the eagerness is present, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he doesn’t have.