Didn craftsmen, such as carpenters and tent-makers, pay tithes?
Not at all; this is another assumed error. Their income was not from farming or raising herds. Biblical society included the following occupations: bakers, candle makers, carpenters, clothing makers, hired farm workers, hired herdsmen, hired household servants, jewelry craftsmen, judges, masons, metal craftsmen, musicians, painters, perfume makers, physicians, sculptors, soldiers, tanners, teachers and tent makers. Again, strange as it may seem, no tithes are ever required from these occupations in the Bible! Scriptural tithing was intended for a society sustained almost wholly by agricultural crops and animal herds. After the landowner paid a tithe, his hired servants were not required to pay a second tithe from their wages, but gave free-will offerings.
