The Tithe in Scripture: Being Chapters from "The Sacred Tenth" with a Revised Bibliography on Tithe-paying and Systematic and Proportionate Giving |
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... things to God , 7. - Anciently connected with failure in tithe - paying , 7. - Bearing of the Septuagint on the rejection of Cain's offering , 8. - Sacrifices of Noah , Abram , and Jacob , 11 • 7-12 CHAPTER II ABRAM AND JACOB Abram's ...
... things to God , 7. - Anciently connected with failure in tithe - paying , 7. - Bearing of the Septuagint on the rejection of Cain's offering , 8. - Sacrifices of Noah , Abram , and Jacob , 11 • 7-12 CHAPTER II ABRAM AND JACOB Abram's ...
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... things to Jehovah . We find at least six persons who made such offerings - namely , Cain and Abel , Noah , Abram , Isaac , and Jacob ; and we proceed to ask what we learn from them as to patriarchal or what is called pre - Mosaic tithe ...
... things to Jehovah . We find at least six persons who made such offerings - namely , Cain and Abel , Noah , Abram , Isaac , and Jacob ; and we proceed to ask what we learn from them as to patriarchal or what is called pre - Mosaic tithe ...
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... thing . In his Babylonian home Abram must have been familiar with the practice . The cuneiform inscriptions of ... things which , it was believed , he had bestowed upon mankind was not considered to be asking too much . There are ...
... thing . In his Babylonian home Abram must have been familiar with the practice . The cuneiform inscriptions of ... things which , it was believed , he had bestowed upon mankind was not considered to be asking too much . There are ...
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... not a human invention , but a divine institution appointed by God . And if God appointed also that some things were acceptable to Him as " clean , " and others not so , is it reasonable to suppose that 18 THE TITHE IN SCRIPTURE.
... not a human invention , but a divine institution appointed by God . And if God appointed also that some things were acceptable to Him as " clean , " and others not so , is it reasonable to suppose that 18 THE TITHE IN SCRIPTURE.
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... things should be offered ? If , then , we may venture the hypothesis that God from the beginning taught Adam that it was the duty of man to render a portion of his increase to his Maker , and that that portion was to be not less than a ...
... things should be offered ? If , then , we may venture the hypothesis that God from the beginning taught Adam that it was the duty of man to render a portion of his increase to his Maker , and that that portion was to be not less than a ...
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Abram Acts alms almsgiving altar apostle Babylonian book of Tobit brought burnt offerings Cain century chapter children of Israel Christ Christian Endeavour Christian Giving Christian Stewardship Chron Church Finance commanded concerning tithes dedicated demai Deut disciples Ecclus enjoined feast firstborn firstfruits freewill offering fruit gathered Gentile God's gold Gospel hath heave offering Hebrew income instance Israelite Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Judah Kings land Levitical tithe London Lord thy Lord's Luke Maimonides Matt ministers Mishna Missionary Mosaic law Moses Nisbet observed paid Palestine pay tithe Pentateuch Pharisees poor portion practice priests and Levites Proportionate Giving Rabbi redeem religion religious Sabbath Sacred Tenth sacrifice says second tithe sect Septuagint shekel Street Surenhusius Systematic Giving Talmud teaching temple Testament thee thereof thine things third tithe thou shalt tithe-paying tithes and offerings Tobit unto the Lord viii whilst worship York City
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Page 41 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 119 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind...
Page 73 - Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Page 37 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ? thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 40 - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand...
Page 119 - Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.
Page 42 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 17 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 30 - At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates ; and the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee), and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied...
Page 72 - And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail...