2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow,Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page873:
The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors. Thus levitical and priestlyperquisites are gifts from God.
Theperquisites of this job include health insurance and a performance bonus.
One voyage, I recollect, I tipped him a live sheep out of the remnant of my sea-stock: not that I wanted him to do anything for me—he couldn’t, you know—but because his childlike belief in the sacred right toperquisites quite touched my heart.
W. Martin with G[uy] A. J. Tops,et al. (1998)Van Dale Groot Woordenboek Engels–Nederlands [Van Dale Great Dictionary, English–Dutch], 3rd edition, volume I, Utrecht, Antwerp: Van Dale Lexicografie,→ISBN.
