Deuteronomy 16:17

Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

Majority Standard Bible

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 a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:10And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,

Ezra 2:63The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

2 Corinthians 8:12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

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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