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申命記 26:12
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the tithes: Leviticus 27:30, Numbers 18:24
the third: Deuteronomy 14:22-29
hast given it: Deuteronomy 12:17-19, Deuteronomy 16:14, Proverbs 14:21, Philippians 4:18, Philippians 4:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:12 - the Levite Deuteronomy 14:28 - the end Deuteronomy 14:29 - the stranger Deuteronomy 26:13 - Levite Isaiah 23:18 - for them Amos 4:4 - and your Luke 14:13 - call Acts 6:1 - their
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase,.... Which, according to Maimonides k, is to be understood of the feast, in which all tithes are finished, which is the feast of the passover:
the third year, [which is] the year of tithing; that is, the third from every seventh, when the land lay fallow. Every year a tithe was paid to the Levites; and besides that a second tithe, which was carried to Jerusalem and eaten there; and every third year it was eaten at home, in their towns and cities in the country instead of it, with the Levite, poor and stranger, and was called the poor's tithe; and hence the Targum of Jonathan here calls this year the year of the poor's tithe, as was also the sixth year, and was reckoned not complete till the passover in the following year, as the Jewish writers l say:
and hath given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow; that is, the poor's tithe of the third year, which these were to eat of with the owner, Deuteronomy 14:28; though the Jews commonly distinguish the Levite from the rest, and suppose that both first and second tithes are meant, the one to be given to the former, and the other to the latter; so the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi:
that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled: for this was a considerable entertainment, a sort of a feast, a full meal, however; hence it is concluded, as Jarchi says, that they did not give less of corn to a poor man than half a kab of wheat, which was above three pints.
k In Misn. Maaser Sheni, c. 5. sect. 6. l Misn. ib. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See the marginal reference to Numbers and note. A strict fulfillment of the onerous and complicated tithe obligations was a leading part of the righteousness of the Pharisees: compare Matthew 23:23.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 26:12. The third year, which is the year of tithing — This is supposed to mean the third year of the seventh or Sabbatical year, in which the tenths were to be given to the poor. See the law, Deuteronomy 14:28. But from the letter in both these places it would appear that the tithe was for the Levites, and that this tithe was drawn only once in three years.