Exodus 25:2
Good News Translation
"Tell the Israelites to make an offering to me. Receive whatever offerings anyone wishes to give.

New Revised Standard Version
Tell the Israelites to take for me an offering; from all whose hearts prompt them to give you shall receive the offering for me.

Contemporary English Version
Tell everyone in Israel who wants to give gifts that they must bring them to you.

New American Bible
Speak to the Israelites: Let them receive contributions for me. From each you shall receive the contribution that their hearts prompt them to give me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

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Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

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Exodus 35:5-29 Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass, . . .

Numbers 7:3-88 Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:16,17 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord: . . .

1 Chronicles 29:1 And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.

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Numbers 18:24 But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.

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Exodus 35:5,21 Set aside with you firstfruits to the Lord. Let every one that is willing and hath a ready heart, offer them to the Lord: gold, and silver, and brass, . . .

Judges 5:9 My heart loveth the princes of Israel: O you, that of your own good will offered yourselves to danger, bless the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:3,5,9,14,17 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house. . . .

Ezra 1:6 And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.

Ezra 2:68 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.

Ezra 3:5 And afterwards the continual holocaust, both on the new moons, and on all the solemnities of the Lord, that were consecrated, and on all in which a freewill offering was made to the Lord.

Ezra 7:16 And all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, and that the people is willing to offer, and that the priests shall offer of their own accord to the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem,

Nehemiah 11:2 And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Context
Offerings for the Tabernacle
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.3And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and brass,…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 8:11
Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

2 Corinthians 9:7
Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Exodus 25:1
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Exodus 25:3
And these are the things you must take: Gold, and silver, and brass,

Exodus 35:4
And Moses said to all the assembly of the children of Israel: This is the word the Lord hath commanded, saying:

Exodus 35:21
Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatever was necessary to the service and to the holy vestments,

1 Chronicles 29:3
Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.

1 Chronicles 29:5
And gold for wheresoever there is need of gold: and silver for wheresoever there is need of silver, for the works to be made by the hands of the artificers: now if any man is willing to offer, let him fill his hand to day, and offer what he pleaseth to the Lord.

Ezra 2:68
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place.

Exodus 25:1
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