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a ten-percent tax on faith, collected long before anyone invented the receipt.
means A tenth of one's income or produce, traditionally given to support a church or clergy, and by extension any levy of a tenth.
from From Old English "teotha," meaning "tenth" — the same family that gives us "ten." Before it was a religious payment, it was simply the ordinal number, and the financial sense grew from the practice of giving one part in ten. Its cousin survives in the archaic "tithing," once an administrative group of ten households in old English law.
- literal meaning
- the word simply means a tenth
- ancient roots
- levied in Mesopotamia and Egypt before the Bible
- english law
- compulsory church tithes survived in Britain until 1936
- paid in kind
- medieval farmers handed over crops and livestock
- tithe barns
- massive barns built solely to hoard the tenth
mormon tithing — the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints requires members to donate 10% of income
medieval english tithe — farmers in england paid 1/10th of crops to the church until the 1830s
israeli maaser ani — jewish law required setting aside 1/10th of produce for the poor in ancient israel