Type of Tithe

Paid

How used

LEVITICAL TITHE

Yearly, by farmers and herdsmen, except for Sabbatical years (Num.18:21)

Stored in Levitical Cities (Lev.25:32) to feed Levites and their families (Neh.10:37)

FESTIVAL TITHE

Yearly, By farmers and herdsmen (some scholars believe it wasn’t paid during years of Poor Tithe)

Hauled to place of worship and immediately EATEN BY WORSHIPPER and others (Deut.14:22-27)

POOR TITHE

Every third and sixth year of seven-year tithing cycle by farmers and herdsmen (Deut.14:28-29)

Laid up within Israel’s city gates as emergency supply of food for Levites and  poor people

PRIEST’S TITHE

Yearly, by the Levites, to the Aaronic priesthood.  The choicest ten per cent “heaved out of” the tithes they received from the people (Num.18:25-32)

ONLY kind brought to Temple storehouses!  Fed priests who worked rotating shifts (Mal.3:10; I Chron. Chap.24; Luke 1:8)