Deuteronomy 14:28
in Deuteronomy 14At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it up within your gates.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
KJV
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
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This verse in Deuteronomy 14
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Compare the marginal references. The tithe thus directed in the third year to be dispensed in charity at home, was not paid in addition to that in other years bestowed on the sacred meals, but was substituted for it. The three years would count from the sabbatical year (see the next chapter), in which year there would of course be neither payment of tithe nor celebration of the feasts at the sanctuary. In the third year and sixth year of the septennial cycle the feasts would be superseded by the private hospitality enjoined in these verses.
This site's exposition
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth
on Deuteronomy 14:28-29
Every third year the tithe stays home and is laid up within thy gates, and 26:12 calls that year the year of tithing. The four who come and eat are the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, and those same four stand together again at 16:11, 16:14 and 26:12-13. The Levite is listed with the poor because he has no part nor inheritance, so the man who serves the sanctuary eats from the provision that feeds the widow. James 1:27 keeps the fatherless and the widow at the centre of what God counts as religion.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
At the end of three years - That is, in the third year, as it is, expressed, chap. xxvi, 12. The same year - This is added to shew that he speaks of the third year, and not of the fourth year, as some might conjecture from the phrase, at the end of three years.
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year,....
It is his honour, and will be ours, to help the helpless. And if we thus serve God, and do good with what we have, it is promised here that the Lord our God will bless us in all the work of our hand. Note, (1.) The blessing of God is all in all to our outward prosperity, and, without that blessing, the work of our hands which we do will bring nothing to pass.
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
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִקְצֵ֣ה׀ | miktzeh | from [the] end of | H7097 → | 97 times |
| שָׁלֹ֣שׁ | shalosh | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| שָׁנִ֗ים | shanim | years | H8141 → | 877 times |
| תּוֹצִיא֙ | totzi' | you will bring out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַעְשַׂר֙ | ma'sar | [the] tithe of | H4643 → | 32 times |
| תְּבוּאָ֣תְךָ֔ | tevuatekha | produce your | H8393 → | 42 times |
| בַּשָּׁנָ֖ה | bashanah | in the year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| הַהִ֑וא | hahiv' | <the> that | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| וְהִנַּחְתָּ֖ | vehinachta | and you will deposit [it] | H5117 → | 142 times |
| בִּשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃ | bishareikha | in gates your | H8179 → | 374 times |
מִקְצֵ֣ה׀from [the] end of
miktzehH7097 →97 times
שָׁלֹ֣שׁthree
shaloshH7969 →432 times
שָׁנִ֗יםyears
shanimH8141 →877 times
תּוֹצִיא֙you will bring out
totzi'H3318 →1067 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מַעְשַׂר֙[the] tithe of
ma'sarH4643 →32 times
תְּבוּאָ֣תְךָ֔produce your
tevuatekhaH8393 →42 times
בַּשָּׁנָ֖הin the year
bashanahH8141 →877 times
הַהִ֑וא<the> that
hahiv'H1931 →1879 times
וְהִנַּחְתָּ֖and you will deposit [it]
vehinachtaH5117 →142 times
בִּשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃in gates your
bishareikhaH8179 →374 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Amos 4:4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
it leads to
- Hosea 4:15
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’
- Ezekiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you…
- Numbers 28:3–4
And tell them that this is the offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
- Hosea 4:15
Through
Deuteronomy 14:22You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 26:12–15
When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and…
- Nehemiah 10:37
Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of…
- Deuteronomy 12:6
To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Deuteronomy 12:17
Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give,…
- Numbers 18:21
Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 26:12–15
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.