We also inform you that it is not allowed to impose tax, tribute or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God.I wonder if this is the verse that inspired someone to decide that churches were to be exempt from taxes. It makes sense from other directions, too, of course, but I wonder what the original impetus was in modern government to have tax exemption. Was it simply the desire to demonstrate that the state does not hold sway over the church? Or was it this verse, where it was done thousands of years before?
And don't ask me what the Nethinim were, I have no idea. I don't recall the term being used before.
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