Bible Cross References
the portion
2 Chronicles 31:16
and not by clans. They gave a share to all males thirty years of age or older who had daily responsibilities in the Temple in accordance with their positions.
Leviticus 27:30-33
30
One tenth of all the produce of the land, whether grain or fruit, belongs to the LORD.
31
If you wish to buy any of it back, you must pay the standard price plus an additional 20 percent.
32
One of every ten domestic animals belongs to the LORD. When the animals are counted, every tenth one belongs to the LORD.
33
You may not arrange the animals so that the poor animals are chosen, and you may not make any substitutions. If you do substitute one animal for another, then both animals will belong to the LORD and may not be bought back.
Numbers 18:8-21
8
The LORD said to Aaron, "Remember that I am giving you all the special contributions made to me that are not burned as sacrifices. I am giving them to you and to your descendants as the part assigned to you forever.
9
Of the most sacred offerings not burned on the altar, the following belong to you: the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the repayment offerings. Everything that is presented to me as a sacred offering belongs to you and your sons.
10
You must eat these things in a holy place, and only males may eat them; consider them holy.
11
"In addition, any other special contributions that the Israelites present to me shall be yours. I am giving them to you, your sons, and your daughters for all time to come. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat them.
12
"I am giving you all the best of the first produce which the Israelites give me each year: olive oil, wine, and grain.
13
It all belongs to you. Every member of your family who is ritually clean may eat it.
14
"Everything in Israel that has been unconditionally dedicated to me belongs to you.
15
"Every first-born child or animal that the Israelites present to me belongs to you. But you must accept payment to buy back every first-born child, and must also accept payment for every first-born animal that is ritually unclean.
16
Children shall be bought back at the age of one month for the fixed price of five pieces of silver, according to the official standard.
17
But the first-born of cows, sheep, and goats are not to be bought back; they belong completely to me and are to be sacrificed. Throw their blood against the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, an odor pleasing to me.
18
The meat from them belongs to you, like the breast and the right hind leg of the special offering.
19
"I am giving to you, to your sons, and to your daughters, for all time to come, all the special contributions which the Israelites present to me. This is an unbreakable covenant that I have made with you and your descendants."
20
The LORD said to Aaron, "You will not receive any property that can be inherited, and no part of the land of Israel will be assigned to you. I, the LORD, am all you need."
21
The LORD said, "I have given to the Levites every tithe that the people of Israel present to me. This is in payment for their service in taking care of the Tent of my presence.
Numbers 18:26-28
26
to say to the Levites: "When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that the LORD gives you as your possession, you must present a tenth of it as a special contribution to the LORD.
27
This special contribution will be considered as the equivalent of the offering which the farmer makes of new grain and new wine.
28
In this way you also will present the special contribution that belongs to the LORD from all the tithes which you receive from the Israelites. You are to give this special contribution for the LORD to Aaron the priest.
Malachi 3:8-10
8
I ask you, is it right for a person to cheat God? Of course not, yet you are cheating me. 'How?' you ask. In the matter of tithes and offerings.
9
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.
10
Bring the full amount of your tithes to the Temple, so that there will be plenty of food there. Put me to the test and you will see that I will open the windows of heaven and pour out on you in abundance all kinds of good things.
that they might
Nehemiah 13:10-13
10
I also learned that the Temple musicians and other Levites had left Jerusalem and gone back to their farms, because the people had not been giving them enough to live on.
11
I reprimanded the officials for letting the Temple be neglected. And I brought the Levites and musicians back to the Temple and put them to work again.
12
Then all the people of Israel again started bringing to the Temple storerooms their tithes of grain, wine, and olive oil.
13
I put the following men in charge of the storerooms: Shelemiah, a priest; Zadok, a scholar of the Law; and Pedaiah, a Levite. Hanan, the son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah, was to be their assistant. I knew I could trust these men to be honest in distributing the supplies to the other workers.
1 Corinthians 9:9-14
9
We read in the Law of Moses, "Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain." Now, is God concerned about oxen?
10
Didn't he really mean us when he said that? Of course that was written for us. Anyone who plows and anyone who reaps should do their work in the hope of getting a share of the crop.
11
We have sown spiritual seed among you. Is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?
12
If others have the right to expect this from you, don't we have an even greater right? But we haven't made use of this right. Instead, we have endured everything in order not to put any obstacle in the way of the Good News about Christ.
13
Surely you know that the men who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who offer the sacrifices on the altar get a share of the sacrifices.
14
In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who preach the gospel should get their living from it.
Galatians 6:6
If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.
the law
Malachi 2:7
It is the duty of priests to teach the true knowledge of God. People should go to them to learn my will, because they are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.