Deuteronomy 14:29

The stored tithe fed the Levite, foreigner, orphan, and widow so they would be satisfied, and God promised to bless Israel's work in return. Generosity to the helpless invites God's blessing.

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• Deut 15:10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Deut 14:27You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deut 24:19–21When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
• Mal 3:10–11Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
• Exod 22:21–24“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
• Job 31:16–22“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Deut 12:12You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
• Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
• Prov 11:24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Isa 58:7–12Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• Ps 41:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Deut 16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
• Deut 26:12–13When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
• Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
• 2 Cor 9:6–11Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Luke 14:12–14He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Heb 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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