Deuteronomy 14:22-29
1599 Geneva Bible
22 Thou shalt [a]give the tithe of all the increase of thy seed, that cometh forth of the field year by year.
23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God (in the place which he shall choose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thy kine, and of thy sheep, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is far from thee, where the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name, [b]when the Lord thy God shall bless thee,
25 Then shalt thou make it in money, and [c]take the money in thine hand, and go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.
26 And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thine heart desireth: whether it be ox, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatsoever thine heart desireth: [d]and shalt eat it there before the Lord thy God, and rejoice, both thou, and thine household.
27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.
28 At the end of three years thou shalt [e]bring forth all the tithes of thine increase of the same year, and lay it up within thy gates.
29 Then the Levite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, and shall eat, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
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- Deuteronomy 14:22 The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites, which had none inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 14:24 When he shall give thee ability.
- Deuteronomy 14:25 Or, bind up.
- Deuteronomy 14:26 After the Priest hath received the Lord’s part.
- Deuteronomy 14:28 Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites, these were laid up in store for the poor.
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