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TithingDEFINITIONA giving of one tenth of one's possessions or gains . Since the numberten is used in the Scriptures as representing all, it is a token of thecomplete dedication of God's people, with all their possessions, to theservice of Jehovah .Abraham's Tithing to Melchize- be with me, and will keep me indek Showed Levitical Priesthood this way that I go, and will giveInferior to Christ'sme bread to eat, and raiment toGen . 14 :18-20 "And Melchize- put on, so that I come againdek king of Salem brought forth to my father's house in peace,bread and wine : and he was and Jehovah will be my God,priest of God Most High . And then this stone, which I have sethe blessed him, and said, Blessed up for a pillar, shall be God'sbe Abram of God Most High, house : and of all that thou shaltpossessor of heaven and earth : give me I will surely give theand blessed be God Most High, tenth unto thee ."who hath delivered thine enemies Tithes Paidinto thy hand . And he gave himby Israelites Underthe Lawa tenth of all ."Heb The main lithe-to the Levitesgreat . this 7 :4-10man" Behold, then how[Melchize,dek] Num. 18 :21 "And unto thewas to whom Abraham, the fam- children of Levi, behold, I haveily head, gave a tenth out of the given all the tithe in Israel forchief spoils . True, the men who an inheritance, in return forreceive their priesthood from the their service which they serve .sons of Levi have a command- even the service of the tent ofment to collect tithes from the meeting."people according to the Law, that The second tithe-to be usedis . from their brothers, even if to travel to Jerusalem or otherthese have issued from the loins divinely designated place for asofAbraham ; but the man who sembly there . What was left wasdid not trace his genealogy from to be eaten therethem took tithes from Abrahamand blessed him who had the su Deut . 14 :22-26 tithe all the "Thou shalt promises . Now without any disthyseed, that which comethItpute, greater the less is blessed by the forth from the field year by year .. And in the one that And thou shalt eat before Jehoreceivemen who are dying that Jeho vah thy God, in the place whichreceive tithes, but in the othcase it is a manh of whom it is s he shall choose, to cause hiswitnessed that name to dwell there, the tithe ofI Abraham use And, the expression, t thy grain, of thy new wine, andreceives of thine oil, and the firstlings oftithes has evenpaid Levitithes, whofor he wasas thy herd and of thy flock ; thatstill in the loins of his forefa- thou mayest learn to fear Jehotherwhen Melchizedek met him ." vah thy God always . And if theway be too long for thee, so thatJacob Vowed One Tenth (Not thou art not able to carry it, bebyLaw), Picturing Complete cause the place is too far fromDevotion of Christians Today thee, which Jehovah thy GodGen . 28 :20-22 "And Jacob shall choose, to set his namevowed a vow, saying, If God will there, when Jehovah thy God376