1a
Of all the fruit of your fields, and the increase of your flocks, a tenth shall you render to the house of the Lord, your God, and the treasury of the king;
1b
That the Priest who administers in holy things, and the servants of the king, who rule in righteousness, may eat bread, and the land yield her increase.
2a
¶ If ye do not these things, the Priest shall fail to instruct you and your children: the order of God's house shall be forgotten;
2b
And the servants of the king shall forget the Law, and judge for hire, and righteousness shall cease.
2c
Then shall wickedness be in the midst of you, and oppression come upon you.
3a
¶ Moreover, the king shall send his servants to demand of you, and they shall exact that which ye have withheld, and shall wrest it from you with increase;
3b
And if ye resist them, ye shall be spoiled.
4a
¶ Of all the spoil which you take from your enemies, a tenth shall ye render to the house of the Lord, your God, and the treasury of the king:
4b
That he who administers in holy things may remember you before God, and the king's arm may deliver you.
5
¶ If ye do not this, ye shall not go out with a blessing, and ye shall flee before your enemies, and none shall deliver you.
6
¶ Moreover, the king shall lift his hand against you, and shall buffet you, and from you shall he take the spoil; and if ye remove it from him, he shall spoil you.
7a
¶ When you labor not in these things, yet one-tenth of your time shall you consecrate to the Lord, your God, and shall labor for the house of the Lord, your God, and for the treasury of the king, according to your skill, and your cunning, and your art,
7b
And you shall not withhold that a place for God to dwell among you may not be wanting, and the work of the king may not fail, and that you may possess abundantly fields, flocks, and habitations.
8
¶ If ye do not these things, ye shall not prosper in the work of your hands, and poverty shall be in your dwellings.
9a
¶ Moreover, the king shall take your goods and your substance from you, to recompense what you have defrauded the house of the Lord, and the treasury of the king, with increase.
9b
And if ye obstinately defraud in these things, ye shall be beaten with stripes.
10
¶ And whosoever cometh into the kingdom, a tenth of all he possesses shall he give for the establishment of the kingdom, and for its increase, that he may have an everlasting inheritance therein.
11
¶ And until he do this, no inheritance shall be given unto him, and he shall not wax rich in goods.
12a
¶ Moreover, the king shall send his servants to take a tenth from him, with increase;
12b
And then the king, remembering his children, shall grant an inheritance unto him: but his obstinacy shall surely be remembered.