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Honor Yahweh with your substance,
    with the first fruits of all your increase:
10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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Honor the Lord with your substance
    and with the first fruits of all your produce;(A)
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your vats will be bursting with wine.

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27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
    tomorrow I will give it to you,”
    when you have it by you.

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27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,[a]
    when it is in your power to do it.(A)
28 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go and come again;
    tomorrow I will give it,” when you have it with you.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.27 Heb from its owners

24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
    There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat.
    He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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24 Some give freely yet grow all the richer;
    others withhold what is due and only suffer want.(A)
25 A generous person will be enriched,
    and one who gives water will get water.(B)

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26 There are those who covet greedily all day long;
    but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

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26 All day long the wicked covet,[a]
    but the righteous give and do not hold back.(A)

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  1. 21.26 Gk: Heb all day long one covets covetously

He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
    for he shares his food with the poor.

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Those who are generous are blessed,
    for they share their bread with the poor.(A)

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Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
    and don’t crave his delicacies:

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Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
    do not desire their delicacies,(A)

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14 As clouds and wind without rain,
    so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

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14 Like clouds and wind without rain
    is one who boasts of a gift never given.(A)

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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat.
    If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

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21 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat,
    and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink,(A)
22 for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
    and the Lord will reward you.(B)

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27 One who gives to the poor has no lack;
    but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

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27 Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
    but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.(A)

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