Verse 17
17. Thou mayest not eat… the tithe of thy corn The tithes mentioned differ from those in Leviticus 27:30-32. Those include all the products of the flock, the herd, and the field, and are spoken of as the Lord’s. The Deuteronomic tithes seem to be limited to the corn, wine, and oil. “They are nowhere characterized as the Lord’s, but are spoken of as belonging to the Israelites, to be eaten in sacrificial meals, or as a tithe to be set apart once in three years for the benefit of the poor.” CURTISS, Levitical Priests, p. 38.
Firstlings It is said that an unanswerable contradiction is found here to the regulations as to firstlings in Numbers 18:15-18. “There the Lord is represented as intimating to Aaron, in respect to the firstlings, that ‘the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and the heave shoulder, it shall be thine;’ but it is not said that the priests are to have all the flesh of the firstlings, nor is it said here that the people are to have all.” CURTISS, Levitical Priests, p. 40.
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