Portions

They shall have like <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

And there fell ten <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which <i>werei> on the other side Jordan;

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>:

Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, <i>which werei> in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for <i>thisi> day <i>isi> holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

• Offerings

And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified <i>holy thingsi> unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified <i>themi> unto the children of Aaron.

• Covetousness

And I perceived that the <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> of the Levites had not been given <i>themi>: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar <i>a day ofi> gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> one to another.

• Jews
• Poor

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> one to another, and gifts to the poor.

And <i>a portion shall bei> for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy <i>portioni>, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy <i>portioni>, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length <i>shall bei> over against one of the <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>, from the west border unto the east border.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This <i>shall bei> the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph <i>shall have twoi> <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>.

And the residue <i>shall bei> for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan> for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house <i>shall bei> in the midst thereof.

This <i>isi> the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these <i>arei> their <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>, saith the Lord GOD.

They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their <span class="highlight-word">portionsspan>.