Bible Verses About Liberality: General references

"You are not to delay offering from your harvest of grain, olive oil or wine. "The firstborn of your sons you are to give to me.

You are to do the same with your oxen and your sheep - it is to stay with its mother seven days, and on the eighth day you are to give it to me.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell the people of Isra'el to take up a collection for me -accept a contribution from anyone who wholeheartedly wants to give.

The contribution you are to take from them is to consist of gold, silver and bronze;

blue, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen, goat's hair,

tanned ram skins and fine leather; acacia-wood;

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ritual vest and breastplate.

"They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

Moshe said to the whole community of the people of Isra'el, "Here is what ADONAI has ordered:

'Take up a collection for ADONAI from among yourselves -anyone whose heart makes him willing is to bring the offering for ADONAI: gold, silver and bronze;

blue, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen, goat's hair,

tanned ram skins and fine leather; acacia-wood;

oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;

onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ritual vest and the breastplate.

"'Then let all the craftsmen among you come and make everything ADONAI has ordered:

the tabernacle with its tent, covering, fasteners, planks, crossbars, posts and sockets;

the ark with its poles, ark-cover and the curtain to screen it;

the table with its poles, all its utensils and the showbread;

the menorah for the light, with its utensils and lamps, and the oil for the light;

the incense altar with its poles; the anointing oil; the fragrant incense; the screen for the entranceway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

the altar for burnt offerings, with its poles and all its utensils; the basin with its base;

the tapestries for the courtyard, with their posts and sockets; the screen for the gateway of the courtyard;

the tent pegs for the tabernacle; the tent pegs for the courtyard, with their ropes;