tithes in English

noun
1
one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the church and clergy.
They retained only one direct tax, the tithe on agricultural produce (decima).
verb
1
pay or give as a tithe.
he tithes 10 percent of his income to the church

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1. Or “tithes.”

2. Both Jacob and Abraham voluntarily offered tithes.

3. * See also Alms, Almsgiving; Riches; Tithes, Tithing; Worldliness

4. We Are Blessed When We Give Tithes and Offerings

5. We want to have prosperity without paying our tithes.

6. The payment of tithes was adopted from the Old Law . . .

7. There are no dues or tithes that have to be paid.

8. The Lord promises to bless us as we faithfully pay our tithes and offerings.

9. The Law was abolished, including the command to present specific material offerings and tithes.

10. Genival discovered that the Lord’s work does not depend on tithes.

11. And the Lord thunders back, “In tithes and offerings” (Malachi 3:8).

12. The branch president receives and accounts for tithes and offerings from branch members.

13. 19:24 To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year — Deut.

14. (Leviticus 25:1-12) Tithes were given in addition to the firstfruits offered to God. —Exodus 23:19.

15. 22 In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.

16. What tithes and tricks but an imposition, all a confounded imposture ? - and I can prove it. Sentencedict.com

17. In 1838 an Act was passed Commuting the tithes into a rent-charge payable not by the occupiers but the landlords.

18. 11 In Malachi’s day God’s people brought in literal offerings and tithes, such as grain, fruit, and livestock.

19. “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house” (Malachi 3:10).

20. The abbot of Halesowen received £1 a year from the tithes of Dudley, Worcs., and the vicar of Hailes 10s.

21. We are not fully repentant if we do not pay tithes or keep the Sabbath day holy or obey the Word of Wisdom.

22. Evidence for the right of the prior [of Durham] [to the Advowry of the tithes of a fourth part of his church of Whitworth

23. The bridge and ferry money all pay alike, let their road lead them that way or not; but then they are exempt from all Billettings, crown duties, tithes, clearing the roads, furnishing horses for travelling, day labour, &c.

24. The Ordnance Survey Memoirs for County Antrim in the 1830s are full of complaints about the Cantankerousness of Presbyterians who still refused to pay tithes or small dues in the years leading up to tithe commutation in 1838

25. Hence must it lamentably be against the testimony of Christ Jesus for the civil state to impose upon the souls of the people a religion, a worship, a ministry, oaths (in religious and civil affairs), tithes, times, days, marryings, and Buryings in holy ground…" Roger …

26. The collection consists of a bound volume of 161 papers - letters to and from Alltud Eifion and other family members, 1830-1861, various receipts for Tyddyn Iolyn, 1754-1821, details regarding the payment of tithes in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn as well as the papers of Owen Jones as Overseer of the Poor for the parish, 1829-1844.