^30 (A)“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord. ³¹ If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. ³² And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that ^(B)pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the Lord. ³³ One shall not differentiate between good or bad, ^(C)neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

^21 (A)“To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting, ^22 (B)so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, ^(C)lest they bear sin and die. ²³ But ^(D)the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, ^(E)and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ²⁴ For the tithe of the people of Israel, which ^(F)they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance ^(G)among the people of Israel.”

⁸ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. ^(A)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ ^(B)In your tithes and contributions. ^9 (C)You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. ^10 (D)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby ^(E)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open ^(F)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. ¹¹ I will rebuke ^(G)the devourer^[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. ¹² Then ^(H)all nations will call you blessed, for you will be ^(I)a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.