Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
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Nehemiah 12:44
And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.
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Exodus 22:29
Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.
Exodus 23:19
The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
Exodus 34:22
And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.
Exodus 34:26
Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's milk
Leviticus 27:33
He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
2 Chronicles 31:6
And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.
Nehemiah 10:36
As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:
Proverbs 3:9
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
1 Corinthians 15:20
But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.
James 1:18
Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
Revelation 14:4
These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
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Leviticus 7:8
And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.
Leviticus 7:9
And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.
Leviticus 7:14
And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar.
Deuteronomy 18:8
His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.
Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
1 Corinthians 9:8
Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?
1 Corinthians 9:10
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?
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Numbers 3:43
Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.
Numbers 3:44
And the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
Numbers 8:14
So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.
Numbers 18:4
They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.
Numbers 18:5
You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:6
Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:28
Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,
2 Chronicles 35:3
And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,
Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
Ezekiel 44:11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.
Acts 13:2
And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.
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Numbers 1:50
But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.
Numbers 1:53
But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.
Numbers 3:10
And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.
Numbers 3:41
And give to me the Levites (I am the Lord) in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites in place of the first births among the cattle of the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:42
So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.
Numbers 8:15
After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.
Numbers 8:16
For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.
Numbers 8:24
This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;
Numbers 8:25
But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;
Numbers 16:9
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
Numbers 18:2
Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.
Numbers 18:3
They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.
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Deuteronomy 14:23
And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.
Deuteronomy 14:24
And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;
Deuteronomy 14:25
Then let these things be exchanged for money, and, taking the money in your hand, go to the place marked out by the Lord your God for himself;
Deuteronomy 14:26
And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;
Deuteronomy 14:27
And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.
Deuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
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1 Samuel 27:6
So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.
1 Samuel 30:25
And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.
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Numbers 23:25
Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.
Numbers 23:26
But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?
Numbers 23:27
Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.
1 Chronicles 9:26
For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.
1 Chronicles 9:28
Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.
1 Chronicles 26:20
And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.
1 Chronicles 26:21
The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli.
Ezra 8:25
And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:
Ezra 8:26
Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,
Ezra 8:27
And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
Ezra 8:28
And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.
Ezra 8:29
Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.
Ezra 8:30
So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.
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1 Kings 6:5
And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:
1 Kings 6:6
The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.
1 Kings 6:10
And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.
1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;
1 Chronicles 28:12
And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;
2 Chronicles 3:9
And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.
2 Chronicles 34:11
Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
Jeremiah 35:2
Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.
Jeremiah 36:10
Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all the people.
Ezekiel 40:29
And the rooms in it and the uprights and the covered ways, by these measures:
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2 Chronicles 5:11
Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;
2 Chronicles 5:12
And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)
Nehemiah 13:15
In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.
Proverbs 8:34
Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Romans 12:7
Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;
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2 Chronicles 13:11
By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.
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2 Chronicles 13:12
And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.
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2 Chronicles 31:16
As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions.
2 Chronicles 31:17
And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions;
2 Chronicles 31:18
And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given.
2 Chronicles 31:19
And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.
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Nehemiah 7:1
Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,
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1 Chronicles 9:16
And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles 9:22
There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.
1 Chronicles 9:25
And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.
Nehemiah 11:25
And for the daughter-towns with their fields, some of the men of Judah were living in Kiriath-arba and its daughter-towns, and in Dibon and its daughter-towns, and in Jekabzeel and its daughter-towns,
Nehemiah 11:26
And in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,
Nehemiah 11:27
And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,
Nehemiah 11:28
And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,
Nehemiah 11:29
And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
Nehemiah 11:30
Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11:36
And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.
Nehemiah 12:29
And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 12:1
Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
Nehemiah 12:33
And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
Nehemiah 13:30
So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
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Nehemiah 13:2
Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.
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Nehemiah 13:6
But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,
Nehemiah 13:7
And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God.
Nehemiah 13:8
And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.
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Nehemiah 13:3
So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.
Nehemiah 13:23
And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
Nehemiah 13:27
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
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Psalms 109:8
Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.
Jeremiah 1:10
See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
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Luke 12:37
Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.
Luke 17:8
Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?
John 12:2
So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.
Galatians 5:13
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
Revelation 3:20
See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me.
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1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
1 Timothy 5:18
For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
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Nehemiah 10:34
And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;
Hebrews 7:5
And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.
Hebrews 7:8
Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.
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