the end

Deuteronomy 14:22 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

Deuteronomy 26:12-15 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing...

Amos 4:4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning...

thou shalt bring As the Levites had no inheritance, the Israelites were not to forget them, but truly tithe their increase. For their support, the Levites had.

1. The tenth of all the productions of the land

2. Forty-eight cities, each forming a square of

4000 cubits

3. Two thousand cubits of ground round each city; total of land,

53,000 acres.

4. The first-fruits, and certain parts of all the animals killed in the land. But though this was a very small proportion for a {whole tribe} that had consented to annihilate its {political existence}, that it might wait upon the service of God, yet, let it be considered, that what they possessed was {the best of the land}: and while it was slender remuneration for their services, yet their portion was such as rendered them independent, and kept them comfortable; so that they could wait on God, and labour in his work, without distraction.