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→Tithing in the Books of the Prophets
[[Tobit]] 1:6-8 provides an example of all three classes of tithes practiced during the Babylonian exile:
:''But I alone went often to [[Jerusalem]] at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of [[Israel]] by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron. The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at [[Jerusalem]]: another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at [[Jerusalem]]: And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father's mother had commanded me...''
:''' 8''' ''Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.''
