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How To Make Your Farmland to Prosper By God's Hand
Exodus 23:10 - 11
Exodus 23:10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof.
Exodus 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the POOR of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. |
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What To Do When Reaping Your Food Harvest
Leviticus 19:9 - 10
Leviticus 19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Leviticus 19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the POOR and stranger: I am the LORD your God. |
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The Day of Atonement And The Poor
Exodus 30:15 - 16
Exodus 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the POOR shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. |
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Make Rightous Decisions.
Don't Honor People By Their Poor Or Rich Status.
Leviticus 19:15
Leviticus 19:15 "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the POOR, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."
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At Harvest Time
Leave A Few Crops For The Poor
Leviticus 23:22 (KJV)
Leviticus 23: 22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the POOR, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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Rules For The Poor
Leviticus 25:25(KJV)
Leviticus 25:25 If thy brother be waxen POOR, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
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Rules For The Christian Churches
They Are To Help Provide For ALL The Poor
Leviticus 25:35 - 42 (KJV)
Leviticus 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee
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Leviticus 25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus 25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Leviticus 25:38
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Leviticus 25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of JUBILE.
Leviticus 25:41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus 25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
(BIBLE NOTES: see also this chapter for more JUBILEE rules for releasing slaves bondsmen.)
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All Your Friends And Family
Debts Owed To You Every 7 Years
Deuteronomy 15 1-11 (KJV)
Deut. 15:1 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
Deut. 15:2
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
Deut. 15:3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release.
Deut. 15:4 Save when there shall be No POOR among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it.
Deut. 15:5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
Deut. 15:6 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
Deut. 15:7 If there be among you a POOR man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy POOR brother.
Deut. 15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Deut. 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy POOR brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deut. 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
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Deut. 15:11 For the POOR shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy POOR, and to thy needy, in thy land.
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Lending Rules To Your Neighbor
Deuteronomy 24:10-15 (KJV)
Deut. 24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deut. 24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Deut. 24:12 And if the man be POOR, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
Deut. 24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Deut. 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is POOR and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.
Deut. 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is POOR, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
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Who Makes The Poor ? Who Makes The Rich?
1 Samuel 2:7-9 (KJV)
1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the POOR out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
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We Must Give Gifts to the Poor
Esther 9:21 - 26 (KJV)
The Story of Esther
And The Puram Jewish Holiday Feast
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Esther 9:21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly.
Esther 9: 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the POOR.
Esther 9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them.
Esther 9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them.
Esther 9:25
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther 9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them.
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Who delievers the Poor out of TROUBLE?
Job 5:15 - 20 (KJV)
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Job 5:15 But he saves the POOR from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16 So the POOR have hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5:18 For He maketh sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and His hands make whole.
Job 5:19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20 In famine He shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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