1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Exodus 22:29 | Thou shalt not delay to pay thy tithes and thy first-fruits: *thou shalt give the first-born of thy sons to me. Exodus 13:2.; Exodus 12. and 34:19.; Ezechiel 44:30. | Tithes. Hebrew, "thy plentitude, (first-fruits and tithes) and thy tears;" (or liquors distilled form odoriferous trees) in a word, all that is most excellent. Censorinus (de die nat.) says, excellently well: "They who acknowledged that they had received food, a country, light, and even their very persons, from the bounty of the gods, failed not to consecrate a part of all to the gods,...to the temples and chapels, where they worshipped them." (Calmet) |