Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

And in the days of Joiakim, his brothers the priests and the heads of families [were]: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

[it was] in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Josadak, and in the days of Nehemiah; and Ezra the priest [was] the scribe.

and to bring the firstfruits of our land, and the firstfruits of the fruit of every tree, year by year, into the house of the Lord;

And the firstfruits of our grain, and the fruit of every tree, of wine, and of oil, will we bring to the priests to the treasury of the house of God; and a tithe of our land to the Levites; for the Levites themselves shall receive tithes in all the cities of the land we cultivate.

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring into the treasuries the firstfruits of the grain, and wine, and oil; to where the holy vessels [are], and the priests, and the ministers, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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.

And all Judah brought a tithe of the wheat and the wine and the oil into the treasuries,

And as he gave the command, Israel brought abundantly their firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and every fruit of the field. And the children of Israel and Judah brought tithes of everything abundantly.

And those who dwelt in the cities of Judah themselves also brought tithes of calves and sheep, and tithes of goats, and consecrated them to the Lord their God, and they brought them and laid them in heaps.

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].

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.

Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.

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.

And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And your heave offerings shall be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor, and an offering from the winepress.

Of all your gifts you shall offer an offering to the Lord, and of every firstfruit the consecrated part from it.