1 SAMUEL 8:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.”
He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vintage, and give it to his officers and his servants—the *ma'aser* (tithe), nominally reserved for *Levites* and *Cohanim* (Levites and priests), is redirected to *sarim* (officials) and *avadav* (servants). The religious obligation is secularized into royal *tax*.
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