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He also worked as a commissioner on the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 ... tithes in 1836 and showed great ability as tithe commissioner, an office which ...

Related to almsgiving is the practice of giving a tithe. In English ... and Abraham in return gave Melchizedek “a tithe of all.” ...

far from doubt, and do not often give a tithe according to general valuation." It is thought by some scholars that many sayings of Gamaliel ...

strongly against divorce and failing to tithe properly. Malachi's ... *not offering a full tithe Some of the above themes may be interpreted ...

to receive proceeds of the Levitical tithe. In both Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism, children of a Bat Levi, regardless of her marital ...

gained no exemption from paying the tithe (the King engaged to support the Protestant ministers in part recompense) and had to respect Catholic ...

#To separate the "tithe for the poor" #To give charity ... #The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe #Not to preface one ...

The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes the results of a number of separate policies conducted by successive ...

*People traditionally gave one-tenth of their produce as tithe. The practice of tithing is still common in Christian churches today, though it ...

about the Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais] Retrieved July 18, 2008. True vellum is still used for Jewish scrolls, of the Torah ...

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from it, but repaid like other borrowers. The tithe seems to have been considered the rent due to the god for his land. It is not clear that all lands ...

financed in England by a special "Saladin tithe." This Crusade took back Acre, and Saladin's army met King Richard I of England at the ...

Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...

more nor less. As he also had to pay the tithe to the church and the porta to the state, the peasant's obligations were thus not inconsiderable ...

(filled with money raised by the Saladin tithe), raised taxes, and even ... amount that had been raised by the Saladin tithe only a few years earlier ...

churches, approved Franciscan and Dominican orders, tithe to support crusade, conclave procedures. *15. Council of Vienne (1311–1312 C.E. ...

Most of what he produced was taken in the form of a tithe or some other tax. The peasant could not hunt, fish or chop wood freely in the early sixteenth ...

of their own, these usually being having to pay the tithe bill to the Anglican Church of Ireland and the huge amounts they had to pay in order to lease ...

According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot b'nei Noach), also called the Brit ...

The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario and portions of eight U.S. states that border the Great Lakes: New York ...

when non-Muslims held high positions of state, no tithe was levied on non-Muslims and many people participated in religious festivals of traditions other ...

The deity to whom Abraham offers his tithe after sharing this sacred meal with Melchizedek is “El Elyon,” a form of the God El. El was the ...

of 1801 in France. The state collects the church tithe through the taxation system and determines the salaries of the clergy of the two official denominations ...

*Every three years, the tithe is to be given to the local Levites and those in need of charity, rather than being brought to the capital. (14:28-29) ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe ...

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The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...

since its "religious tax," or the tithe, helped to cement a powerbase against the monarchy. Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he ...

of the land and collected its own taxes (the tithe) from peasants. The lands were controlled by bishops and abbots of monasteries, but two-thirds ...

Levites are specified. The Levites must in turn tithe to the priests (Chapter 18). Aaron's son Eleazer models a rite of purification through the ...

established by Abraham of giving a tithe of one's income to the synagogue or church. ===Exile in Haran=== Jacob continued on his way to Haran ...

quot; (14:20). This event was the origin of the tithe in the Jewish and Christian tradition. ===Abram's covenant offering=== Abram then received ...

Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor and chief justiciar of England, in the late twelfth and early ...

supported by its right to a share (tithe) of society's output as well as substantial landholdings, and endowed with specific authority ...

Khazars, where the latter's ruler collects the tithe from them." Some modern commentators infer from Arab accounts that the Rus' Khaganate ...

property in lieu of payment resulting in the Tithe War of 1831-1836. Although opposed to the use of force, O'Connell successfully defended participants ...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˌtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; ...

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess ...

Mosaic law:But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done ...

but for purchasing a share of the tithe of the church for £440 (a considerable sum of money at the time). A bust of him placed by his family ...

role, he performed spiritual healing, collected a tithe of five pecks of rice from the faithful, This practice explains why the Celestial Masters ...

must care for the less fortunate, thus zakat (a tithe given to the disadvantaged) is one of a Muslim's obligations (fard, duties). ...

gave multiple regularly paid taxes as a tithe or various type of tax. The Ottomans did not normally require the Christians to convert to Islam ...