Community offerings provided food for the priests and Levites, who had no farmland and could not support themselves. These provisions included:
The first part of every harvest (see Exodus 23:19; 34:26; Numbers 18:12–13; Deuteronomy 26:1–11)
Redemption money of five shekels for the oldest sons and the firstborn of all herds and flocks (see Exodus 13:13; 34:20; Numbers 18:15–17)
A tenth of everything (see Numbers 18:21–24; Deuteronomy 14:22–29)