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It may further be noted concerning this FIRST TITHE that the Levites to whom it
was given by YEHOVAH God, were required by Him to render a tenth of what they
received as a heave offering to YEHOVAH, and to pay it to Aaron the priest, (Numbers
18:26-28).

The Second Tithe

We now proceed to a SECOND TITHE, which reads as follows, (Deuteronomy
14:22-27):

"Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which cometh forth of the
field year by year. And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which
He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy
wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou
mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always. And if the way be too long for thee,
so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which
the Lord thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the Lord thy God shall
bless thee: then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou
shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or
for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee: and thou
shalt eat there before the lord thy God,and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy
household: and the Levite that is within thy gates."

Concerning the SECOND TITHE, we learn:

1) That it consisted of the yearly increase of the land.

2) That it was to be eaten by the offerer, his household, and the Levite, with firstlings of
herd and flock, but only at the appointed place of worship.

3) The object of this was that Israel might always fear YEHOVAH.

This tithe might be converted at home into money, to be spent at the capital for
sacrifices and feasting.

The tithe-payer was to eat and rejoice before YEHOVAH.

The due payment of this SECOND TITHE involved a stay of at least a week each
at the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles -- as well as a shorter period at the Feast of
Weeks, (Deuteronomy 16:3, 13, 16).

It will help us better to understand this SECOND, or festival tithe, as it is
sometimes called, if we consider the end it was to serve. All the males in Israel (with
their families, if they chose) were to assemble at the sanctuary three times a year for the
worship of YEHOVAH God, (Deuteronomy 12:6-7).