⁸ The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless^(A) you in the land he is giving you.

¹⁰ Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart;^(A) then because of this the Lord your God will bless^(B) you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.

¹⁰ You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.^(A)

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.^(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?^(B)

¹⁸ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe^(A) into the storehouse,^(B) that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates^(C) of heaven and pour out^(D) so much blessing^(E) that there will not be room enough to store it.^{(F) 11} I will prevent pests from devouring^(G) your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,^(H)” says the Lord Almighty.

⁴ I will send you rain^(A) in its season,^(B) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.^{(C) 5} Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want^(D) and live in safety in your land.^(E)