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


In Context

14 Be joyful at your Feast-you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

15 For seven days celebrate the Feast to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the Lord empty- handed:

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

18 Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

19 Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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