Deuteronomy 14:25
in Deuteronomy 14then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.
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ASV
then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:
KJV
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThou shalt then turn it into money,.... The tithe, which would be lighter and easier carriage: and bind up the money in thine hand; put it into a bag or purse, and tie it up and carry it in the hand; which some think was ordered, that it might not be mixed with other money; but it seems only to have respect to journeying, and making it fit for that.
This site's exposition
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase
on Deuteronomy 14:22-27
Numbers 18:21 gave the tithe to the Levites, and the tithe here is eaten by the man who brings it, at the place the Lord shall choose to place his name. Readers have taken that two ways: the older Jewish reckoning, which Josephus and Clarke follow, counts a second tithe distinct from the Levites' tenth, while others read one tithe described from another angle in another book. When the road is long the produce may be sold, the money bound up in the hand and carried, and spent at the sanctuary on oxen, sheep, wine or strong drink, whatsoever thy soul desireth. The reason attached to the meal is that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always, which makes the feast itself the lesson.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
), and that money must be laid out in something to feast upon before the Lord. The comfortable cheerful using of what God has given us, with temperance and sobriety, is really the honouring of God with it.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed--The dedication of a tenth part of the year's produce in everything was then a religious duty. It was to be brought as an offering to the sanctuary; and, where distance prevented its being taken in kind, it was by this statute convertible into money.
How the passage was read
On Deuteronomy 14:22-29On Deuteronomy 14:22-29
The tithe system behind the mint and cumin
The Torah's tithe was agricultural: a tenth of grain, wine, and oil, eaten before the LORD or given, in the third year, to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. The oral tradition extended the duty far beyond the named crops. The Mishnah's tractate on tithes opens with the general rule: “whatever is food, and is looked after, and grows from the land, is liable for tithes” (Maasrot 1:1). Under that rule even kitchen herbs were tithed, a scruple carried out leaf by leaf.
That is the practice behind Jesus' words about tithing “mint and dill and cumin” (Matthew 23:23). Read His sentence whole: “these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.” He affirms the scruple and indicts the inversion of weight, the tithed herb beside the neglected justice, mercy, and faithfulness. The woe is about proportion, not about tithing.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנָתַתָּ֖ה | venatatah | and you will exchange [it] | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בַּכָּ֑סֶף | bakasef | for <the> money | H3701 → | 403 times |
| וְצַרְתָּ֤ | vetzarta | and you will secure | H6696 → | 38 times |
| הַכֶּ֙סֶף֙ | hakesef | the money | H3701 → | 403 times |
| בְּיָ֣דְךָ֔ | beyadekha | in hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| וְהָֽלַכְתָּ֙ | vehalakhta | and you will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַמָּק֔וֹם | hamakom | the place | H4725 → | 401 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יִבְחַ֛ר | yivchar | he will choose | H977 → | 171 times |
| יְהוָ֥ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ | ʾeloheikha | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| בּֽוֹ׃ | bo | <in> <the> it |
וְנָתַתָּ֖הand you will exchange [it]
venatatahH5414 →2011 times
בַּכָּ֑סֶףfor <the> money
bakasefH3701 →403 times
וְצַרְתָּ֤and you will secure
vetzartaH6696 →38 times
הַכֶּ֙סֶף֙the money
hakesefH3701 →403 times
בְּיָ֣דְךָ֔in hand your
beyadekhaH3027 →1618 times
וְהָֽלַכְתָּ֙and you will go
vehalakhtaH1980 →1546 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַמָּק֔וֹםthe place
hamakomH4725 →401 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
יִבְחַ֛רhe will choose
yivcharH977 →171 times
יְהוָ֥הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָGod your
ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times
בּֽוֹ׃<in> <the> it
bo
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.