Deuteronomy 14:22

22 "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Deuteronomy 14:22 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 14:22

Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed
This was a different tithe from that which was made and given to the Levites, and out of which a tithe was taken and given to the priests, and which they only ate of; but this, as appears by the following verse, was what the owners themselves ate of, and so the tithing was left to be made by them themselves, and which they were to be sure to make, and to make it truly and faithfully:

that the field bringeth forth year by year;
being ploughed and sowed yearly, the produce of it was to be tithed yearly; the Jewish writers

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 observe on this, that it must be what the earth produces, and is fit for food: and it must be thy seed, which is especially thine, and is not common, but has an owner, and this excludes mushrooms which thou sowest not, and therefore cannot be called thy seed.

F20 Ib. in Misn. Maaserot, c. 1. sect. 1.

Deuteronomy 14:22 In-Context

20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

21 "Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself. Thou shalt give it unto the stranger who is in thy gates, that he may eat it, or thou mayest sell it unto an alien; for thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God. "Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

22 "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which He shall choose to place His name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks, that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, or if the place be too far from thee which the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee,