Here the tithes (and in Numbers 18:26 the priestly tithes) are to be dedicated to their purpose by the ceremony of heaving them to the Lord. The ti…

But the tithes ... — Better, for the tithes ... This verse assigns the reason why the Levites were to have no inheritance…

But the tithe of the children of Israel
The tenth of the produce of their land, as before:

which …

As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their In…