to be butchered on site for the meat to remain edible, explains the inordinately small number of bones from yearlings (sheep, goat, or cattle) recovered from Israelite villages and the large number retrieved from worship sites.10 What we learn here is that Israel’s worship was structured around the regular acknowledgment that nothing they had was truly theirs. It all belonged to Yahweh. Here we also find Yahweh’s divinely authorized taxation system—the ultimate indicator that the people of Israel