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Besides those two tithes, which I have already said you are to pay
every year, the one for the Levites, the other for the festivals, you are
to bring every third year a third tithe to be distributed to those that
want; 1
to women also that are widows, and to children that are orphans. But as
to the ripe fruits, let them carry that which is ripe first of all into
the temple; and when they have blessed God for that land which bare them,
and which he had given them for a possession, when they have also offered
those sacrifices which the law has commanded them to bring, let them give
the first-fruits to the priests. But when any one hath done this, and hath
brought the tithe of all that he hath, together with those first-fruits
that are for the Levites, and for the festivals, and when he is about to
go home, let him stand before the holy house, and return thanks to God,
that he hath delivered them from the injurious treatment they had in Egypt,
and hath given them a good land, and a large, and lets them enjoy the fruits
thereof; and when he hath openly testified that he hath fully paid the
tithes [and other dues] according to the laws of Moses, let him entreat
God that he will be ever merciful and gracious to him, and continue so
to be to all the Hebrews, both by preserving the good things which he hath
already given them, and by adding what it is still in his power to bestow
upon them.
1 Josephus's plain and express interpretation of this law of Moses, Deuteronomy 14:28, 29; 26:12, etc., that the Jews were bound every third year to pay three tithes, that to the Levites, that for sacrifices at Jerusalem, and this for the indigent, the widow, and the orphans, is fully confirmed by the practice of good old Tobit, even when he was a captive in Assyria, against the opinions of the Rabbins, Tobit 1:6-8.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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