This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.’
Deuteronomy 14:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Each year you are to set aside a tenth of all the produce grown in your fields. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall surely tithe all the yield of your seed produced by your field each year. American Standard Version (1901) Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth from the field year by year. Common English Bible You must reserve a tenth part of whatever your fields produce each year. Catholic Public Domain Version Each year, you shall separate the tithes out of all your crops which spring forth from the earth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Every year thou shalt set aside the tithes of all thy fruits that the earth bringeth forth, |
This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.’
At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.’
So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our grain offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and fresh oil. A tenth of our land’s produce belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.
A priest from Aaron’s descendants is to accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth, and the Levites are to take a tenth of this offering to the storerooms of the treasury in the house of our God.
Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,’ says the Lord of Armies. ‘See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.
You are to offer a loaf from your first batch of dough as a contribution; offer it just like a contribution from the threshing-floor.
‘Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.
then you and your household may eat it anywhere. It is your wage in return for your work at the tent of meeting.
Within your city gates you may not eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, or fresh oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.
You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.