- Deal honestly in selling personal property
- Pledges given for debt.
- Children given as pledges.
- OT=LEv. 25:39-42; II Kings 4:1-7
- NT=Matt. 18:23-25
- In the year of Jubilee. ( Every 50 years )
- Israel commanded to have a just system of weights and measures.
- OT=Lev. 19:35-36; Deut. 25:13-15; Prov. 11:1; 20:10; Amos 8:5;
Micah 6:11
- NT=Rom. 12:17; II Cor. 8:21; Phil. 4:8
- Taxation under the law of God based on a system of tithes.
- OT=Gen. 14:20; 28:22; Ex. 23:19; Lev. 27:30-33; Num. 18:24,
26-29; Deut. 12:6,11; 14:22-23,28; 16:10,17; 26:12;
II Chron. 31:5-6,12; Neh. 10:37-38;13:12; Prov. 3:9; Mal. 3:8-11
- NT=Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42; 18:12; Acts 20:35; I Cor. 16:2;
II Cor. 9:6-8; Heb. 7:2, 4-9
- Purpose of taxes.
- For redemption of persond ( Sin offering )
- OT=Lev. 5:11; Lev. 14:21-24; 27:1-13
- For Temple services.
- OT=Ex. 30:11-16; II Chron. 24:6,9
- As a tribute to governing powers.
- NT=Matt. 22:15-21; Luke 2:1-3; 20:25;
Rom. 13:6-7
- Census taken by the means of taxation.
- OT=Num. 3:40,42-43
- NT=Luke 2:1-3
- Amount of tithes.
- OT=Gen. 28:22; Lev. 27:32
- NT=Heb. 7:2,4
- Priests and attendants exempt from tax, toll, tribute or custom.
- One tenth of tithes of Israel given to the Levites.
- Sacred obligations
- First born of the children of Israel given to Levites.
- OT=Ex. 13:2,12,13,15; 22:29; 34:20; Num. 3:13; 8:16-18
- NT=Luke 2:23
- First born of animals belong to God.
- OT=Ex. 13:2,12,13; 22:30; 34:19-20;
Deut. 15:19-22
- First fruits of foods belong to God.
- OT=Ex. 22:29; 23:19; 34:26;
Deut. 18:4; 26:10; Lev. 27:30
- The tithe belongs to God.
- OT=Lev. 27:30; Mal. 3:8-10
- To be given without show.
- Give according to ability.
- OT=Deut. 16:17
- NT=I Cor. 16:1-2
- Give willingly and cheerfully.
- OT=Ex. 35:2
- NT=II Cor. 9:7
- Give liberally.
- Atonement tax.
- Freewill offerings
- OT=Lev. 1:3; 22:17-21,29;
Num. 15:1-3; Deut. 16:10
- Abuses of taxation lead to:
- Rebellion
- Burdonsome indebtedness.
- Enslavement
- Charging usery from Israelites from fellow Israelites forbidden.
- OT=Ex. 22:25; Lev. 25:35-37; Deut. 23:19-20; Neh. 5:7,10-13;
Psalm 15:1,5; Prov. 28:8; Is. 24:2; Jer. 15:10;
Ez. 18:5; 8-10,13-14,17; 22:12
- NT=Luke 6:34
- May lend at usery to strangers.
- The lending of anything to your brother.
- OT=Deut. 24:10-13
- NT=Matt. 5:42
- To lend to the needy.
- OT=Deut. 15:7-11; Psalm 37:21,26; 112:5; Prov. 19;17
- NT=MAtt. 5:42; Luke 6:34-35; I John 3:17
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