And they said to Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for the construction work which the LORD commanded us to perform."
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If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
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Deuteronomy 15: 7-8
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
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Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
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Luke 21: 1-4