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    ==The total tithing requirement==
    ==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 1 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%
    *Year 2 - 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 4 - First tithe + party tithe = 20%  
    *Year 5 - 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=
    =The requirement to tithe is part of the Abrahamic Covenant=
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