Tithe

A tithe, means the tenth-part of something, usually income, paid to a religious organization. ^[1] A tithe can be seen as a tax, a fee for a service or a voluntary contribution.^{[2] [2]} Tithing came from the Book of Numbers.^[3] In ancient Israel, the tribes of Levites were the priests.^[3] The other tribes gave tithes to the tribes of Levies because they had been given no land in Canaan.^[3] Tithes may be money or crops or other valuable thing.

1. ↑ "tithe". Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Alexander O. Sign, Tithe Obsolete or Relevant? (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2013), p. 2
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Niral Russell Burnett, Tithing and Still Broke: Exploring the Reasons Christians Suffer Lack (Tulsa, OK: Eternal Word Publishing, 2001), p. 70