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22 “Certainly you must give a tithe of all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from your field year after year.[a] 23 And you shall eat before[b] Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God always.[c] 24 But if the distance is too great for you,[d] so that you are not able to transport[e] it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is too far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you, 25 then in that case you may exchange for money,[f] and you shall take[g] the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose. 26 You may spend the money for anything that you desire,[h] for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything that you desire,[i] and you shall eat it there before[j] Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. 27 And as to the Levite who is in your towns,[k] you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance along with you.

28 “At the end of three years you shall bring out all of the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store it in your towns.[l] 29 And so the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien also may come and the orphan and the widow that are in your towns,[m] and they may eat their fill,[n] so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all of the work of your hand that you undertake.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 14:22 Literally “the going forth of the field year by year”
  2. Deuteronomy 14:23 Literally “before the faces of”
  3. Deuteronomy 14:23 Literally “all of the days”
  4. Deuteronomy 14:24 Literally “it is great from you the journey that”
  5. Deuteronomy 14:24 Or “carry”
  6. Deuteronomy 14:25 Literally “you may give it in for the money/silver”
  7. Deuteronomy 14:25 Or “bind”
  8. Deuteronomy 14:26 Literally “that your soul/inner self desires”
  9. Deuteronomy 14:26 Literally “that your soul/inner self desires”
  10. Deuteronomy 14:26 Literally “to the face of”
  11. Deuteronomy 14:27 Literally “gates”
  12. Deuteronomy 14:28 Literally “gates”
  13. Deuteronomy 14:29 Literally “gates”
  14. Deuteronomy 14:29 Literally “they may eat and they may be satisfied”

22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year. 23 And thou shalt eat before Jehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear Jehovah 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 too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: 26 and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27 And the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: 29 and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

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