Deuteronomy 26:12

Presentation of the Third-year Tithe

26:12 When you finish tithing all 1  your income in the third year (the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows 2  so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages. 3 

Deuteronomy 26:14

26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; 4  I have obeyed you 5  and have done everything you have commanded me.

1 tn Heb includes “the tithes of.” This has not been included in the translation to avoid redundancy.

2 tn The terms “Levite, resident foreigner, orphan, and widow” are collective singulars in the Hebrew text (also in v. 13).

3 tn Heb “gates.”

4 sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.

5 tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.