Deuteronomy 26:11-13

11And ayou shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

12When you have finished paying all bthe tithe of your produce in the third year, which is cthe year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, 13then you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, dnor have I forgotten them.

Esther 9:19

19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in ethe rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as fa holiday, and gas a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

Esther 9:22

22as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into ha holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Job 31:16-18

16 If I have iwithheld anything that the poor desired,
or have jcaused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17or have eaten my morsel alone,
and the fatherless has not eaten of it
18(for from my youth the fatherless
Hebrew he
grew up with me as with a father,
and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow
Hebrew her
),

Ecclesiastes 11:2

2 mGive a portion to nseven, or even to eight,
ofor you know not what disaster may happen on earth.

Luke 11:41

41But pgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, qeverything is clean for you.

Revelation of John 11:10

10and rthose who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and sexchange presents, because these two prophets thad been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
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