[ctdonath2]

put away an extra ten percent as a tithe

Finally! The correct answer to the question.

My last answer was "an extra 20-lb sack of rice doesn't cost much nor take much space", but I like yours better.

[Kartographer]

But you know there comes a time when those who failed to heed must pay. You can only carry your brother so far. Even God closed the doors of the ark when the time came:

13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. 15 So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.