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At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
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The Third-Year Tithe Explained
Commentators clarify this was not an extra tithe, but a redirection of an existing one. In most years, a tithe was taken to the sanctuary for a celebratory meal. However, every third year, this same tithe was instead kept in the local towns to be distributed there, as described in the following verse.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare the marginal references. The tithe thus directed in the third year to be dispensed in charity at home, was not paid in addition to that in …
19th Century
Anglican
At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe. —This is called by the Jews Ma’aser ‘Âni, "the po…
16th Century
Protestant
At the end of three years. In my opinion, those who think that another kind of tithe is referred to here are mistaken.
It is, rathe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year
A second portion from the produce of their land was required. This whole provision was evidently directed against the covetousness, distrust, and s…
