tithe
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The Musk tithe seems characteristic of an project that so far has divulged few specific details over what would be cut, but promises to reap great personal benefits for its appointed heads.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2024
Dwumfour said in a 2017 sermon posted online, extolling a central tenet of the prosperity gospel theology: that good things come to those who tithe.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023
“Believing God wants you to tithe and doing it are two different things,” Mr. McConnell said.
From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2023
People produced what they were going to consume, and surplus went to the lord or the church as a mandatory tax, usually 10 percent, called the tithe.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Every year at around this time the monks came down from their mountainside temple to collect their tithe of rice.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
Vocabulary lists containing tithe
The Pearl
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