“Without fail you shall give a tithe of all the produce of your seed that the field yields year after year.
Deu 12:6, Deu 12:17; Deu 26:12-15; Lev 27:30-33; Num 18:21; Neh 10:37.
Source: The Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
Deu 15:1-18
Concrete expressions of various concerns for the poor.
Source: New Illustrated Caribbean Bible Commentary
Tithing laws covered all agricultural produce. By giving the tithe (the tenth present to the Lord), the Israelites recognized that the land was the Lord’s and that the benefits of the land were theirs because of God’s blessings. The tithe was to be enjoyed in the presence of the Lord, unless the people came from a great distance. Then they could exchange it for silver and with it they could buy food and drink in Jerusalem.
Source: New Illustrated Caribbean Bible Commentary
you will tithe one tenth. The tithe specified in these verses was only that of the agricultural produce that the land would provide. This was a second tithe to be used for holding worship convocations in the sanctuary (vv. Deu 14:23-26), in addition to the first mentioned tithe, known as the Levitical tithe which was used to support the priests and Levites who served the people. cop. Lev 27:30-33 Y Num 18:21-32. A third welfare tithe was also offered every three years (see notes on the Deu 14:28; Deu 26:12).
Source: MacArthur Study Bible
The tithe. The Israelite tithe was made up of the dedication of the produce of the land. In an agrarian society, harvests were the most immediate proof of God’s goodness, and thus an essential part of worship. It is not easy to determine how much of an Israelite’s property actually constituted the tithe (although lit. it means “a tenth”). On the other hand, the tithe was only one of countless offerings that the Israelites were expected to bring. Trying to understand this is a little more complicated due to the different laws that the Pentateuch contains in this regard. In Num. 18:21-29, the tithe appears as an offering for the benefit of the Levites (who needed such offerings to live). Here, it is a feast in which the offerers and their families participated, although the Levites were not left helpless (v. 27).
A more complete picture can be obtained if the various laws are put together. A family party at the place of worship left enough as a contribution for the Levites. However, the third year’s tithe (vv. 28, 29), being collected in the cities instead of being taken to the place of worship, seems to have had a special use: For the benefit of the needy (just as for the Levites, who lived in all parts of the territory; Num. 35:1-8).
However, the tithe as presented here is typical of Deut. It is a celebration of the whole town in the central place of worship. It is characterized by joy in worshiping the one God, and symbolizes the unity of the people, underlining the fact that they all share in it. And at the same time it shows an obedient people (bringing their tithes) and blessed with the abundance of the land (at the party in which the offering itself allowed them).
Note. 24-26 A practical detail is included that acknowledges the problem that some people lived far from the place of worship. The law has something in common with the law that permitted non-sacrificial killing (12:13-28).
Source: New Twenty-First Century Biblical Commentary
GRADES
(1) Or, “tithe.”
CROSS-REFERENCES
844 Deu 12:11; Deu 26:12
Source: New World Translation
This commandment was considered by Jewish interpreters to be a second tithe (see Lev 27:30 Y Num 18:21 for the first; also note on evil 3:8), which was brought to the main sanctuary in produce or money. It seems that the offerer could use a part of this tithe for a feast in the sanctuary (vv. Deu 14:26-27).
Source: Ryrie Annotated Study Bible
tithe… → Lev 27:30; Num 18:21.
Source: Textual Bible IV Edition
lit., seed
Source: The Bible of the Americas
g Lev 27:30-30; Num_18:21.
Source: The Textual Bible III Edition
This paragraph speaks of tithes, that is, of that tenth part of the crops that is offered to God. Deuteronomy makes the offering a basis of the believer’s life. Elsewhere in the Bible it will be emphasized that “the righteous has mercy, he gives and lends; and that, at last, he possesses the land”, while“ the wicked borrows and does not repay, and in the end is uprooted from the land” (Ps 37). He who knows how to give does not waste; he is content with what he has and lacks nothing; while he who refuses to give himself never has enough or feels happy (Prov 11,24). (See also 2 Cor 9,6.) The same spirit inspires chapter 15 on the sabbatical year (see Lev 25,1).