¹⁷ From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah^(A) of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits^(B) to the Lord.

²¹ “I give to the Levites all the tithes^(A) in Israel as their inheritance^(B) in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.^(C)

⁹ I gave orders to purify the rooms,^(A) and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.^(B)

⁵ and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes^(A) of grain, new wine and olive oil prescribed for the Levites, musicians and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.

² take some of the firstfruits^(A) of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name^(B)

⁴ You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,^(A)

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)

⁸ “Will a mere mortal rob^(A) God? Yet you rob me.

“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’

“In tithes^(B) and offerings.