in the third year … the year of tithing See on Deuteronomy 14:28; the two phrases are in apposition. For the latter LXX reads the second tithing(τὸ δεύτερον ἐπιδέκατον), a reading which even after the vocalic changes which it involves in the Heb. results in an impossible construction. It is due to an attempt to accommodate D's arrangement for the third year's tithe to the later practice.

then thou shalt give it Rather, and thou hast given it; the apodosis does not commence till the next v.

Levite, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 14:29.

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