Giving tithes

22 “Once each year you must set apart ◄a tithe/10 percent► of all the crops that are produced/harvested in your fields. 23 Take those things to the place that Yahweh our God will choose for you to worship him. There eat the tithes of your grain, your wine, your olive oil, and the meat of the firstborn male animals of your cattle and your sheep. Do this in order that you may learn to always revere Yahweh, the one who has blessed you by giving you these things. 24 If the place that Yahweh has chosen for you to worship him is very far from your home, with the result that you are not able to take there the tithes of your crops with which Yahweh has blessed you, do this: 25 Sell [IDM] the tithes of your crops, wrap the money carefully in a cloth, and take it with you to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen. 26 There, with that money, you may buy whatever you want to—beef or lamb or wine or fermented drinks. And there, in the presence of Yahweh, you and your families should eat and drink those things and be happy. 27 But be sure to not neglect/forget to help the descendants of Levi who live in your towns, because they will not own any land.

28 “At the end of every three years, bring a tithe of all your crops that have been produced/harvested in that year and store it in your towns. 29 That food is for the descendants of Levi, because they do not have their own land, and for foreigners who live among you, and for orphans and widows who live in your towns. They are permitted to come to where the food is stored and take what they need. Do that in order that Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.”