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Israelites and Judahites living in other cities of Judah also brought in tithes of oxen, sheep, and votive offerings consecrated to the Lord, their God; these they brought in and heaped up in piles.(A) It was in the third month that they began to establish these heaps, and they completed them in the seventh month.[a] When Hezekiah and the princes had come and seen the piles, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.

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  1. 31:7 Third month…seventh month: between the late spring feast of Weeks or Pentecost and the fall feast of Booths or Tabernacles, there is seldom any rain in Palestine; at the end of this dry period the problem of storage (v. 11) would become acute.