Tithes, what are they?

The idea of tithes was and is to ensure that no one goes without what they need. Under the law of tithing no human being was left without food, shelter or clothing. Today many think of tithes as 10% of their income that they give to their Pastor, Minister, Rabbi etc. But none bother to ask is this the will of The creator of heaven and earth? Again what was the tithe created for? Was it so that the High Priest could live better than the rest of the people or was is so that the tabernacle was taken care of? Lets examine the most used scripture for tithes in churches today.


The word for tithe in these verses is H4643 mah-as-ayr meaning tenth 
Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob YAH? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

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3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith YHWH of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.


What is the reason the creator commands tithes here?


Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house

3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith YHWH of hosts.

3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith YHWH of hosts.

The creator set up the system of tithes so that Israel would be looked at as a blessed and fruitful Nation. Others would look at them and see how blessed their fields were and how no one who served the creator of heaven and earth went without what they needed. Every one was taken care of.

The Most High is not a respector of persons, he does not approve of some people having what they need and others not. He said all are to open their hand WIDE to the widow, the fatherless, and the poor. This too is a commandment that was to be fulfilled with the tithes.

Lev 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Deu 16:19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

Prov 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Prov 28:21 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with YAH.

James 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

The word for tithe in this verse is H4643 mah-as-ayr meaning tenth 
Deu 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 

26:13 Then thou shalt say before the YHWH thy mighty one, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Deu 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.


The creators problem with Israel is that they had become morally corrupt. They were keeping his feast days and Sabbaths out of tradition the same way almost every one in the United States observes the holidays of the land. They had forgotten the morality of the law which is what Messiah Yahushua taught when he walked the earth.

Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their creator: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to Yah.

3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to YHWH?

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Matt 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, Yah: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

18 He saith unto him, Which? Yahushua said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

21 Yahushua said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

23 Then said Yahushua unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Yah.

Notice, Messiah said nothing to the man about the appointed feast days or Sabbaths because these were the commandments of the land that were already being kept. Israel was and til this day are continually a morally corrupt people.

Matt 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Luke 11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe(G586 to tithe as a debtor or creditor) mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of Yah: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.



Money H3701 keseph- silver, money,price

There is an argument that people tithed crops in Moses' times because the currency of coins did not exist, but is this true according to the Torah?.

Gen 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Gen 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.

Gen 33:19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.

Gen 42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.

Gen 42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid
Ex 22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

Ex 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


When was the tithe turned into money according to the scriptures?



Deu 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
14:23 And thou shalt eat before YHWH thy mighty one, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which YHWH thy mighty one shall choose to set his name there, when YHWH thy mighty one hath blessed thee:

14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which YHWH thy mighty one shall choose:

14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before YHWH thy mighty one, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,


We no longer have a Levitical priesthood, none of us know what tribe we come from. However this is not a reason not to tithe as commanded by The Most High. We have the widow, the fatherless and the poor with us today. So I ask again is it the will of The Almighty, who is loving, merciful and righteous in judgment that tithes be funneled into the pocket or household of one man or woman?(Or is there a tradition being held onto when paying tithes?). Let us be reminded of the leaven of the Pharisees and traditions of men.
While the people live paycheck to paycheck and there are brothers and sisters, children digging in the trash looking for food, sleeping outdoors in the freezing cold, going to school without proper clothing, supplies and to bed at night with an empty stomach? Whether your congregation be 20, 60, 200 or 1000 I ask you to consider what should truly be done with the tithe commanded by The Most High.
Imagine the difference that could be made in the lives of the people if believers came together in unity to truly build a Nation.The Most high is about NATION building not congregation building.
I do not profess to have the "truth" nor am I trying to convince anyone of anything. I am only doing my job as a believer in the Messiah. If I am wrong in anything I have said please send me the scriptures so that I may be corrected.
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Deu 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Luke 11:35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 8:12 Then spake Yahushua again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Acts 2:45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Acts 4:35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

1 Cor 9:11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Yahushua.

Matt 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

John 8:39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Yahushua saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.