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Your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
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God Honors the Gift
Commentators explain that God considered the Levites' tithe (which came from the people's tithes) to be just as valid as if it were grain from their own threshing floor. Even though the Levites didn't own land, their offering from their God-given income was fully honored and accepted by Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Reckoned unto you - Or, by you. The Levites were, of their tithes, to pay tithe to the priests, just as other Israelites paid tithe to the…
19th Century
Anglican
And as the fulness of the wine-press.— The word which is here rendered fulness is the same which occurs in Exodus 22:9, a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And [this] your heave offering The tithe of the tithe, which though not properly heaved or lifted up, as the heave o…
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