This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

“This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.’”

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person motivated by a willing heart you are to receive my offering.

And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

“You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them, ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the Lord a tenth of the tithe.

Thus you are to offer up a raised offering to the Lord of all your tithes which you receive from the Israelites; and you must give the Lord’s raised offering from it to Aaron the priest.

So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.”

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all told him, “Go and speak to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. Tell them, ‘I, the Lord, say: “You must learn a lesson from this about obeying what I say!

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.