And thou shalt celebrate the festival of weeks to the Lord thy God, a voluntary oblation of thy hand, which thou shalt offer according to the blessing of the Lord thy God.

a tribute.

Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

Leviticus 5:7 But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles, or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,

Leviticus 12:8 And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed.

Leviticus 25:26 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

Numbers 31:28,37 And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep. . . .

Proverbs 3:9,10 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. . . .

according

Deuteronomy 16:17 But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.

Proverbs 10:22 A fool worketh mischief as it were for sport: but wisdom is prudence to a man.

Joel 2:14 Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?

Haggai 2:15-19 And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord. . . .

Malachi 3:10,11 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and try me in this, saith the Lord: if I open not unto you the flood-gates of heaven, and pour you out a blessing even to abundance. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

2 Corinthians 8:10,12 And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago. . . .

2 Corinthians 9:5-11 Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness. . . .