Deuteronomy 18:3-4

3And this shall be the priestsdue from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: athey shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 4 bThe firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

Ezekiel 44:29-30

29 cThey shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and devery devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 30 eAnd the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. fYou shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, gthat a blessing may rest on your house.

Malachi 3:8-10

8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. hBut you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ iIn your tithes and contributions. 9 jYou are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 kBring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby lput me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open mthe windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

1 Corinthians 9:7-13

7 nWho serves as a soldier at his own expense? oWho plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

8Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses, p“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 10Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written qfor our sake, because rthe plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. 11 sIf we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 12If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more?

Nevertheless, twe have not made use of this right, but we endure anything urather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
13Do you not know that vthose who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
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