Deuteronomy 14:28

28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,

Deuteronomy 14:28 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
28 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:
English Standard Version (ESV)
28 "At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.
New Living Translation (NLT)
28 “At the end of every third year, bring the entire tithe of that year’s harvest and store it in the nearest town.
The Message Bible (MSG)
28 At the end of every third year, gather the tithe from all your produce of that year and put it aside in storage.
American Standard Version (ASV)
28 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:
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
28 At the end of every third year bring a tenth of that year's crop, and store it in your cities.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
28 "At the end of [every] three years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and store [it] within your gates.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
28 At the end of every three years, bring a tenth of everything you produce that year. Store it in your towns.

Deuteronomy 14:28 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:28

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe
of thine increase the same year
This, according to Aben Ezra, was a third tithe, and did not excuse the second tithe; so says:

``I gave the third tithe to the repair of the temple,'' (Tobit 1:7)

as in one copy, but, according to another, to the stranger, fatherless, and widow, which better agrees with what follows; but the Jewish writers generally understand this as the same with the second tithe, which on the two first years from the sabbatical year was carried to Jerusalem, or money in lieu of it, with which provisions were bought and eaten there, but on the third year were eaten in their own cities with the poor, and in the stead of the other; so says Maimonides F24, on the third and sixth years from the sabbatical year, after they have separated the first tithe they separate from what remains another tithe, and give it to the poor, and it is called the poor's tithe, and not on those two years is the second tithe, but the poor's tithe, as it is said, "at the end of three years" and still more expressly elsewhere F25; after they have separated the first tithe every year, they separate the second tithe, ( Deuteronomy 14:22 ) and on the third and sixth years they separate the poor's tithe instead of the second; and this was done, not at the latter end of the third year, but, as Aben Ezra interprets it, at the beginning; for the word used signifies an extremity, and the beginning of the year is one extremity of it as well as the latter end of it:

and lay it up within thy gates;
not to be hoarded up, or to be sold at a proper time, but to be disposed and made use of as follows.


FOOTNOTES:

F24 Hilchot Mattanot. Anayim, c. 6. sect. 4.
F25 In Maaser Sheni, c. 1. sect. 1.

Deuteronomy 14:28 In-Context

26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice.
27 And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns,
29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Leviticus 27:30
  • 2. Deuteronomy 26:12
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