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 ==The total tithing requirement==
-There are a couple of interpretations on tithing as follows:
+The "multiple tithe" position is held by Adam Clarke, Albert Barnes, Matthew Henry, Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Bruce Metzger, Charles Ryrie, the Jewish Talmud and most Jewish writers, like Josephus.
-===Single tithe system===
+However, there are a couple of interpretations on tithing as follows:
-When you add up all of the tithing requirements if there was only one tithe, this is the result:
+===Two tithe requirement===
-*Year 1 - Party tithe = 10%
+Rabbinical Judaism states that the tithes were two-fold; the annual tithe to the Levites and a separate tithe for the party and the poor.  When you add up all of the requirements of the dual tithe system, this is the result:
-*Year 2 - Party tithe = 10%
-*Year 3 - Poor tithe = 10%
-*Year 4 - Party tithe = 10%
-*Year 5 - Party tithe = 10%
-*Year 6 - Poor tithe = 10%
-*Year 7 - no tithing required = 0%
-This would amount to just under 8.6% but doesn't make a great deal of sense given that the Levites would really be in trouble under this system.
+*Year 1 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
+*Year 2 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
+*Year 3 - First tithe + poor tithe = 20%
+*Year 4 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
+*Year 5 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
+*Year 6 - First tithe + poor tithe = 20%
+*Year 7 - no tithing required = 0% (but also no income)
-===Two tithe requirement===
+Over a 7 year period, this amounted to '''20%''' of a farmer's income (but non-farmers were not required to pay the tithe)
+===Three tithe requirement===
-Rabbinical Judaism states that the tithes were two-fold; the annual tithe to the Levites and a separate tithe for the party and the poor.
+Josephus, the Jewish historian from the first century A.D. states that there were three tithes; the annual tithe to the Levites and a separate tithe for the party and a separate tithe for the poor.  When you add up all of the tithing requirements of the tripe tithe, this is the result:
-When you add up all of the tithing requirements of the double tithe requirement, this is the result:
 *Year 1 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
 *Year 2 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
-*Year 3 - First tithe + poor tithe = 20%
+*Year 3 - First tithe + party tithe + poor tithe = 30%
 *Year 4 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
 *Year 5 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
-*Year 6 - First tithe + poor tithe = 20%
+*Year 6 - First tithe + party tithe + poor tithe = 30%
-*Year 7 - no tithing required = 0%
+*Year 7 - no tithing required = 0% (but also no income)
-Over a 7 year period, this amounted to '''17%''' of a farmer's income (but non-farmers were not required to pay the tithe)
+Over a 7 year period, this amounted to '''23.33%''' of a farmer's income (but non-farmers were not required to pay the tithe)
 =The requirement to tithe is part of the Abrahamic Covenant=