Turn into Money and Bestow, Tithing in Moses Time and Tithe of the Land
Deut. 14 is NOT to buy back tithe, the word is “turn into money” and “bestow” no way of redeeming or buy back, remember only the fruit of the land was to be bought back and animals were not redeemed yet tithes includes animals. The clear statements in the bible why it will be “turn into money” is because of distance “If is too far” and “if it is too long”. There’s no clear indication of spoiling it… then that money will bestow…
Yes there is tithing during Moses time even when they have not yet cross the Land of Canaan, they were to practice all the commandments to which include the tithes as stated in Leviticus 27:30-32 so that the children of Israel will not:
1. Forget it. “remember all the way”
2. To humble them
3. To prove their allegiance in keeping the commandments.
Deuteronomy 8: 1 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:
2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee,
and to prove thee, to know what
was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
I have to agree, Moses commanded the Israelites, a must do it in the land of Canaan but noticed in the next verses that these commandments were to be in their hearts and that they should teach it diligently to their children (Deut.6:6-9). Moses told the children of Israel that it was LORD who commanded them to do all the statutes and that obedience be made for them in order to preserved alive just as is it in that day (Deut. 6:24-25 cp. Deut. 8:6) i.e. when Moses was saying those commandments, statutes and judgment should be noted well in the manner as those were already being performed and needs to be practice or remembered. In other words, the tithes were already performed when the Tabernacle was reared up in Exodus 17:17 and that Leviticus 27:30-31 had this confirmed.
Further, there’s a RECORD for all tithe of the land. While the land of Canaan is a land of milk and honey, “a land of wheat and barley and vines, and fig trees… Deut. 8:8 but it is also a “… land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass” (Deut. 8:9), it is indeed rich in mineral deposits for DIGGING and how can a digger tithe? I would suspect it would be silver, gold. brass or iron and the more, this tithe, which would be lighter and easier carriage-COINED MONEY.
