Numbers 18:21Wycliffe's Bible with Modern SpellingSoothly, I gave to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel into possession, for the service by which they serve me in the tabernacle of [the] bond of peace; See the chapter |
promising for their brethren, the principal men of them, and they that came thither to promise, and to swear, that they should go in the law of the Lord, which he gave by the hand of Moses, his servant, and that they should do and keep all the behests of the Lord our God, and his dooms, and his ceremonies;
and we shall bring the first fruits of our meats, and of our moist [or liquor] sacrifices, and the fruits of each tree, and of vintage, and of oil, to [the] priests, at the chamber of the house of the Lord, and the tenth part of our land to deacons [or Levites]; those deacons shall take tithes of all the cities of our works.
Also they numbered in that day the men that were over the keeping places of the treasure, to receive moist [or liquor] sacrifices, and the first fruits, and tithes, that in seemliness, or fairness, of doing of thankings to the Lord, princes of the city should bring in by them, for the priests and deacons [or Levites]; for Judah was glad in priests and deacons present.
Therefore he made to him a great chamber in the house of God; and there before him were men that kept the gifts that were offered, and incense, and diverse vessels, and the tithe of wheat, of wine, and of oil, and the parts of deacons [or Levites], and of singers, and of porters, and the first fruits of priests.