WAGES — the ordinary commercial word for a hired man's pay, from sakhar, to hire. Not a reward, not a blessing, not a gift: the sum owed for work done, which is why Deuteronomy and the prophets keep insisting it be paid the same day. ⚠ Numbers 18:31 applies it to the tithe — it is your WAGES in exchange for your service in the tent of meeting — which settles what the tithe is for: payroll for a tribe that owns no land, not charity, and not an offering the giver gets credit for. The shelf divides on register. Geneva, NWT 1984 and NIV all say 'wages'; KJV, ASV and the Douay-Rheims prefer 'reward', which in modern English drifts toward a prize. Jacob uses the same word of the flocks Laban owes him (Genesis 30:28, already on these pages) — twenty years of arguing about sakhar. → first discussed at Num 18:31