Rushdoony quotes Waller in relation to the second tithe mentioned here in verses 22-23 and also in relation to the third tithe in verse 28 (cf. Ellicott II, 44f.), as follows: (22) Thou shalt truly tithe, - The Talmud and Jewish interpreters in general are agreed in the view that the tithe mentioned in this passage, both here and in verse 28, and also the tithe described in chap. xxvi, 12-15, are all one thing - “the second tithe”; and entirely distinct from the tithe assigned to the Levites for their subsistence in Num. xviii, 21, and by them tithed again for the priest (Num. xviii, 26).... (23) And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God - i.e., thou shalt eat the second tithe. This was to be done two years; but in the third year and sixth years there was a different arrangement (see verse 28). In the seventh year which was Sabbatical there would probably be no tithe, for there was to be no harvest. The profit of the earth was for all and everyone was free to eat at pleasure.... (28) At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe. - This is called by the Jews Ma’aser ‘Ani “the poor’s tithe.” They regard it as identical with the second tithe, which was ordinarily eaten by the owners at Jerusalem; but in every third and sixth year was bestowed upon the poor. (Rushdoony, ibid., p. 50). Rushdoony quotes P.W. Thompson in his work All the Tithes or Terumah (The Covenant Publishing Co., London, 1946, p. 19) in support of the contention that this second tithe was not strictly a tenth, in that a second tenth was not set apart from the specified livestock but that the “firstlings take the place of a second tithe on animals” (ibid.).
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