| I Samuel 8:15
| Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.
| Tenth. God had already claimed one tithe, which he had abandoned to his sacred ministers. We do not read that the kings of the Hebrews ever claimed (Calmet) a second tithe precisely, (Haydock) though they might have done it by the example of other kings, Leviticus 27:30. Joseph had asserted the fifth part of the revenues of Egypt for its monarchs, Genesis 47:26. --- Eunuchs. Hebrew saris, denotes an officer of the court. It was not lawful for the Israelites to make any eunuchs, but they might employ foreigners.
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