Deut. 14 Heathenish rites of mourning prohibited, Deut. 14:1–2; and the eating of any abominable thing, Deut. 14:3. All unclean beasts, Deut. 14:4–8, fish, Deut. 14:9–10, and birds, prohibited, Deut. 14:11–20. True tithing commanded, Deut. 14:22; and where it was to be eaten, Deut. 14:23–27.

Of the Lord your God; whom therefore you must not disparage by unworthy or unbecoming practices, such as here follow, and whom you must not disobey. Ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes, which were the practices of idolaters, both in the worship of their idols, as 1…

i.e. Unclean and forbidden by me, which therefore should be abominable to you.

Of which see Lev. 11:0. The small differences between some of their names here and there are not proper for this work. The learned reader may find them cleared in my Latin Synopsis.

Unto the stranger; not to the proselyte, for such were obliged by this law, Lev. 17:15, but to such as were strangers in religion as well as in nation.

This is to be understood of the second tithes, which seem to be the same with the tithes of the third year, mentioned here below, Deut. 14:28, Deut. 26:12, on which see above, on Deut. 12:17.

See Poole on “Deut. 12:6”, See Poole on “Deut. 12:17”.

Bind up the money in thine hand, i.e. in a bag to be taken into thy hand and carried with thee.

Thou shalt not forsake him; thou shalt give him a share in such tithes, or in the product of them.

At the end of three years, i.e. in the third year, as it is expressed, Deut. 26:12. So, in the end of three years, or of seven years, is the same with in the third or seventh year, as appears by comparing Deut. 31:10, Josh. 9:16–17, 2 Kings 18:9–10, 2 Kings 17:6. All the tithe of thine increase.