“Will a man rob God?” by saying, “Yet you have robbed me.” The Israelite response is: “How have we robbed you?” To which God replies, “In your tithes and contributions” (3:8). God announces that to withhold the full measure of the tithe that He requires from His people is to be guilty of robbing God Himself. Because of this, He pronounces a curse upon the whole nation and commands them afresh to bring to Him all of the tithes. When we think of tithing in Old Testament categories, we understand that