Nehemiah 12:44
Good News Translation
At that time men were put in charge of the storerooms where contributions for the Temple were kept, including the tithes and the first grain and fruit that ripened each year. These men were responsible for collecting from the farms near the various cities the contributions for the priests and the Levites which the Law required. All the people of Judah were pleased with the priests and the Levites,

New Revised Standard Version
On that day men were appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the law for the priests and for the Levites from the fields belonging to the towns; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.

Contemporary English Version
On that same day, some leaders were appointed to be responsible for the safekeeping of gifts for the temple and to be in charge of receiving the first part of the harvest and the ten percent of the crops and livestock that was offered to God. These same leaders also collected the part of crops that the Law of Moses taught was to be given to the Levites. Everyone was pleased with the work of the priests and Levites,

New American Bible
At that time men were appointed over the chambers set aside for stores, offerings, first fruits, and tithes; in them they were to collect from the fields of the various cities the portions legally assigned to the priests and Levites. For Judah rejoiced in its appointed priests and Levites

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

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And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

some.

Nehemiah 10:37-39 And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintage also and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites. The Levites also shall receive the tithes of our works out of all the cities. . . .

Nehemiah 13:5,12,13 And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests. . . .

2 Chronicles 13:11,12 And they offer holocausts to the Lord, every day, morning and evening, and incense made according to the ordinance of the law, and the loaves are set forth on a most clean table, and there is with us the golden candlestick, and the lamps thereof, to be lighted always in the evening: for we keep the precepts of the Lord our God, whom you have forsaken. . . .

2 Chronicles 31:11-13 Then Ezechias commanded to prepare storehouses in the house of the Lord. And when they had done so, . . .

chambers.

1 Chronicles 9:26 To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 26:21-26 The sons of Ledan, the sons of Gersonni: of Ledan were heads of the families, of Ledan, and Gersonni, Jehieli. . . .

of the law.

Numbers 3:10 To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death.

Numbers 8:24,25 This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant. . . .

1 Chronicles 23:28 And they are to be under the hand of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the Lord, in the porches, and in the chambers, and in the place of purification, and in the sanctuary, and in all the works of the ministry of the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 5:11,12 Now when the priests were come out of the sanctuary, for all the priests that could be found there, were sanctified: and as yet at that time the courses and orders of the ministries were not divided among them, . . .

Proverbs 8:34 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Romans 12:7 Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;

waited.

Context
Provisions for Temple Worship
44And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.45For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:8
He shall receive the same portion of food that the rest do: besides that which is due to him in his own city, by succession from his fathers.

Nehemiah 13:4
And over this thing was Eliasib the priest, who was set over the treasury of the house of our God, and was near akin to Tobias.

Nehemiah 13:5
And he made him a great storeroom, where before him they laid up gifts, and frankincense, and vessels, and the tithes of the corn, of the wine, and of the oil, the portions of the Levites, and of the singing men, and of the porters, and the firstfruits of the priests.

Nehemiah 13:12
And all Juda brought the tithe of the corn, and the wine, and the oil into the storehouses.

Nehemiah 12:43
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