Leviticus 27

God did first take the tithe to be his peculiar portion, and thereby alienated it from the people that they had no propriety in it. And the tithe of the land, says he, is the Lord's (Leviticus 27:30). Hence those that withheld their tithes are said to rob God (Malachi 3:8).

Examples are especially two: first, the vow of the Nazirites, whereunto no kind of men were bound by God's commandment, but they bound themselves — God only prescribing the manner and order of keeping it, with rites pertaining thereto, as abstinence from wine, the not cutting of…

Thirdly, and this Covenant is called a Bond, because it is by Covenant that a people are bound, and tied, and knit together, as one Church, all of them to the Lord, and one to another; so that the Covenant is the bond of union, by which a company are so combined and united, as t…

Now if the Translators had translated it thus, Sow in Righteousness, and reap in the mouth of Mercy, it would have been obscure: but those that understand the Hebrew tongue, know the meaning of this phrase to be nothing but thus much. The mouth of a thing is used for the proport…

Oh! you have got a great deal of Land, the meanest of you that have opportunities of service, God lets you out his Land, you have abundance of Land and ground that God gives to you, and a man should account himself rich according to the opportunity of his service. As men in the…

39. That a Woman, after child-birth offer sacrifice (Leviticus 12:6, 7, 8). 40. That the tenth of every clean beast be separated to the Lord (Leviticus 27:32). 41. That every first-born Male be sanctified and offered to the Lord (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19).

Nec Josephus reticuisset, qui contrarium Hebraeis adscribit, nullam scilicet unquam literam mutatam fuisse in lege ab Hebraeis popularibus suis, book 1. contra Appionem. Talmudistae in Leviticus 27. versu ultimo diversis locis notant, nec Prophetae ulli licitum fuisse vel minimu…