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A Voluntary Offering to Advance Pure WorshipThe Watchtower—1999 | November 1
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The Israelites had more than sufficient means to make such a generous contribution. Remember, when they left Egypt, they took with them articles of gold and of silver, along with many garments. Indeed, “they stripped the Egyptians.”a (Exodus 12:35, 36) Previously, the Israelites had willingly shed their jewelry to make an idol for false worship. Would they now show themselves just as eager to make an offering to advance true worship?
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A Voluntary Offering to Advance Pure WorshipThe Watchtower—1999 | November 1
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a This was not thievery. The Israelites asked for contributions from the Egyptians, and these were given freely. Besides, since the Egyptians had had no right to enslave Israel in the first place, they owed God’s people wages for their years of hard labor.
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