Talált 24 Eredmények: tithes
At that time, supervisors were appointed to guard the storage rooms where the contributions, the firstfruits and the tithes were kept. They were to store in them the portions from the different cities of the territory required by the Law for the priests and Levites. For the people of Judah rejoiced to see the priests and Levites doing their duty. (Nehemiah 12, 44)
he had allotted to him a spacious chamber which used to be the storage room for the offerings, incense, utensils, tithes of the wheat, wine and oil, that is, for what belonged to the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. (Nehemiah 13, 5)
I, alone, often went to Jerusalem for the feasts, as is ordered for all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree. I went with the first fruits and tithes of my crop, and with the first shearings of the sheep. (Tobit 1, 6)
As a result of the shortage of food and water, they have decided to lay hands on their animals. They have resolved to eat those things which God in his laws forbade them to eat, including the first fruits of the harvest and the tithes of wine and oil which, after their consecration, had been put aside for the priests who minister before the face of our God in Jerusalem. (Judith 11, 12)
They brought the vestments of the priests, the first-fruits and the tithes, and they brought in the Nazirites who had completed the days of their consecration; (1 Maccabees 3, 49)
From this day on and for all time, Jerusalem shall be a Holy City and be free with all its territory, with the right to collect tithes and tributes. (1 Maccabees 10, 31)
Offer your gifts with a smiling face and when you pay your tithes do it gladly. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 8)
"Come, sinners, to the Sanctuary in Bethel, go down to Gilgal and sin even more! Each morning bring your sacrifices and on the third day your tithes. Burn leavened food for thanksgiving. (Amos 4, 4)
When the descendants of Levi are consecrated priests, they are commanded to collect tithes from their people, that is from their kindred, who are too, are descendants of Abraham. (Hebrews 7, 5)
Here, however, Melchizedek, who does not belong to the family of the Levites, is given tithes from Abraham. Still more, he blesses him, the man of God's promise. (Hebrews 7, 6)
In the first case we see that tithes are received by those who are mortals; here instead, Melchizedek is mentioned as one who lives on. (Hebrews 7, 8)
When Abraham pays the tenth, it is, so to speak, the Levites, receivers of the tithes, who pay the tithe, (Hebrews 7, 9)