17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.


In Context

14 And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.

15 Seven days shall you keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.

16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you.

18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:17Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:17Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:17But every one shall offer according to what he hath, according to the blessing of the Lord his God, which he shall give him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17each shall give according to that which is in his power to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:17each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God, which He hath given to thee.