Rules For Buying Back Tithes Under The Law - 12% & not 10%

Buy back option for the 1st Tithe (Levitical Tithe):

Leviticus 27:31

If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.

Let us do some Mathematics here:

Assume that 1 bundle of wheat was $10.00 in monetary value.

100 bundles = $1000.00

10 bundles belonged to the Lord and they had to be transported to the Levites.

Monetary value of 10 bundles 10 x 10 = $100.00

Redemption option:

Add 20% to the value (1/5th.)

Monetary value $100.00 + $20 (one fifth of the tithe value = 120.00 dollars)

After adding one fifth, which is the monetary value:

(100+20) / 1000.00 = (120.00 / 1000.00) = .12

To convert .12 to percentage form, multiply it with 100.

.12 x 100 = 12 percent.

Therefore if the food tithe had to be redeemed under the law, a Jewish farmer needed to give 12% of the monetary value, hence the act of redeeming the agricultural tithes was not considered as "tithing", as we all know, tithe is 10% and not 12 percent.

Even within the 1st tithe (Ma'aser Rishon), only the Agricultural portion was redeemable, the livestock tithe portion (Ma'aser Behema), carried a severe penalty (even an attempt to redeem) of losing the substitute animal along with animal that was desired to be redeemed.

The 10th animal that passed under the rod, could never be redeemed by money.

Leviticus 27:32

Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd's rod, will be holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:33

He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its proposed substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed."

Buy-back Option For All 3 Tithes

Buy back Option For the 2nd Tithe (Feast Tithe)

For the 2nd tithe, the tithe was allowed to be converted into its monetary value only if the distance was too long. This law was probably given to encourage the Northern Jewish tribes and those who lived east of River Jordan to participate in 1 of the 3 pilgrimage festivals.

Deuteronomy 14:24

“If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the LORD your God blesses you,

Deuteronomy 14:25

then you shall exchange it for money, and bind the money in your hand and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 14:26

“You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Buy back Option For The 3rd Tithe (Poor Tithe):

Should never be exchanged money nor buy back permitted.

Deuteronomy 14:28

At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall deposit it in your town.

Deuteronomy 14:29

“The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien, the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be satisfied, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Question: Could the ancient Jews exchanged money with money? IMPOSSIBLE!

The buy back specifications in the Bible also refutes the lies of tithe teachers that the tithes were from Agricultural products in those days because money was not in use and the society was predominantly Agrarian!

Obviously no one could have exchanged money with money and the Scriptures clearly proves that tithing in the Bible was never from money!

Redemption Option For 3 Different Tithes