Deuteronomy 14:29
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What does Deuteronomy 14:29 mean?
And the Levite, because he hath no part nor inheritance
with
thee
Shall come and take the first tithe, according to Jarchi; but
though this he was to do, yet is not what is intended here, but
he was to partake of the second tithe, or what was in the room of
it, the poor's tithe, with whom he is here joined:
and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which
are within
thy gates, shall come;
and take the second tithe, as the above writer rightly interprets
it, and which he says is the poor's of this year; see ( Deuteronomy
12:12 Deuteronomy
12:18 ) ,
and shall eat and be satisfied;
make a plentiful meal, eat freely as at a feast; and, as the same
writer observes, they were not obliged to eat it at Jerusalem,
according to the way they were bound to eat the second tithe of
the two years, that is, the two preceding this:
that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of
thine hand
which thou doest;
as might be expected, when his commands, and particularly those
respecting the tithes and firstlings, were obeyed.
