Bible Cross References
the portion
2 Chronicles 31:16
besides the increase of males from three years old and upward, to everyone entering into the house of the Lord, [a portion] according to a daily rate, for service in the daily courses of their order.
Leviticus 27:30-33
30
Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord.
31
And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.
32
And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatsoever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.
33
You shall not change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if you should at all change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.
Numbers 18:8-21
8
And the Lord said to Aaron, Behold, I have given you the charge of the firstfruits of all things consecrated to Me by the children of Israel; and I have given them to you as an honor, and to your sons after you for a perpetual ordinance.
9
And let this be to you from all the holy things that are consecrated [to Me, even] the burnt offerings, from all their gifts, and from all their sacrifices, and from every trespass offering of theirs, and from all their sin offerings, whatever things they give to Me of all their holy things, they shall be yours and your sons'.
10
In the most holy place shall you eat them; every male shall eat them, you and your sons: they shall be holy to you.
11
And this shall be to you of the firstfruits of their gifts, of all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; to you have I given them and to your sons and your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance; every clean person in your house shall eat them.
12
Every first offering of oil, and every first offering of wine, their firstfruits of grain, whatsoever they may give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
13
All the firstfruits that are in their land, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be yours: every clean person in your house shall eat them.
14
Every devoted thing among the children of Israel shall be yours.
15
And everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be yours: only the firstborn of men shall be surely redeemed, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean cattle.
16
And the redemption of them [shall be] from a month old; their valuation of five shekels- it is twenty gerahs according to the holy shekel.
17
But you shall not redeem the firstborn of calves and the firstborn of sheep and the firstborn of goats; they are holy; and you shall pour their blood upon the altar, and you shall offer the fat as a burnt offering for an aroma of sweet savor to the Lord.
18
And the flesh shall be yours, as also the breast of the wave offering and as the right shoulder, it shall be yours.
19
Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters with you, a perpetual ordinance; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, for you and your seed after you.
20
And the Lord said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them, for I [am] your portion and your inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.
21
And behold, I have given to the sons of Levi every tithe in Israel for an inheritance for their services, the work in which they perform in the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers 18:26-28
26
You shall also speak to the Levites, and shall say to them, If you take the tithe from the children of Israel, which I have given you from them for an inheritance, then shall you separate from it a heave offering to the Lord, a tenth of the tenth.
27
And your heave offerings shall be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor, and an offering from the winepress.
28
So shall you also separate them from all the offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatsoever you shall receive from the children of Israel; and you shall give to them of the Lord's offering, to Aaron the priest.
Malachi 3:8-10
8
Will a man insult God? For you insult Me. But you say, How have we insulted You? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you [still].
9
And you do surely look off from Me, and you insult Me.
10
The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out My blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.
that they might
Nehemiah 13:10-13
10
And I understood that the portion of the Levites had not been given; and they had fled everyone to his field, the Levites and the singers doing the work.
11
And I strove with the commanders, and said, Why has the house of God been abandoned? And I assembled them, and set them in their place.
12
And all Judah brought a tithe of the wheat and the wine and the oil into the treasuries,
13
to the charge of Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites. And next to them [was] Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Matthaniah; for they were accounted faithful. [It was] their office to distribute to their brothers.
1 Corinthians 9:9-14
9
For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes." Is it oxen God is concerned about?
10
Or does He say [this] altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, for it is written, that he that plows should plow in hope, and he that threshes, in hope should partake of his hope.
11
If we have sown spiritual things for you, [is it] a great thing if we reap your material things?
12
If others partake of this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but bear all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.
13
Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar have a share in the altar?
14
Thus also the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel.
Galatians 6:6
Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.
the law
Malachi 2:7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.