Deuteronomy 16:17

each [shall give] according to that which is in his power to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

In Context

16Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he will choose, at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:

18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt hold the feast of weeks to Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a voluntary-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee;

Ezra 2:63And the Tirshatha said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

2 Corinthians 8:12For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:2-18

Yearly Release. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of… Read the whole commentary →

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