OLD TESTAMENT

Tobit 1:7

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I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.

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Verse 7. Strangers. See Deuteronomy 14:28. Menochius. Leviticus 27:30. Calmet.—Greek, “And the third I gave to whom it belonged, as Debbora, my father’s mother, ordered me, as I was left an orphan by my father; (9) and when I was,” and so forth Bible.

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