OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 26:12

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When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

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Verse 12. Third. It has been remarked (Calmet. 14:28 and Leviticus 27:30,) that the Jews gave two tithes every year, the second was for feasts at Jerusalem, or on the third year at home, if there was not also a third tithe due on that year. Bible.

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