Malachi 3:8

yehave robbed Rather, rob; lit. are robbing: it is still going on.

tithes By the Law of Moses (1) "the tenth of all produce, as well as of flocks and cattle, belongs to Jehovah and must be offered to Him" (Leviticus 27:30; Leviticus 27:32); and (2) this tenth is "assigned to the Levites as the reward of their services" (Numbers 18:21; Numbers 18:24). Nehemiah in his day had to deal once and again with the evil here rebuked. Notwithstanding the "sure covenant" into which they had entered (Nehemiah 9:38 with Nehemiah 10:32-39), he had occasion, on his return to Jerusalem after an absence of a few years, to reform them again in this very particular (Nehemiah 13:10-14).