What is the origin of tithing?
A. Tithing has it origin in the days of the Old Testament. The following passages from the Holy Bible are examples of God’s command to tithe: “You shall not delay to make offerings from the fullness of our harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep; seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eight day you shall give it to me.” [Exo. 22:29- 30] “The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God.” [Exo. 23:19] “All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the Lord’s; they are holy to the Lord.” [Lev.
