Midrash for Bekhorot 105:12
אפי' תימא ר' עקיבא כאן ליקרב כאן ליקדש
[To guard against this inference] the text states: And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XII, 6.');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"your tithes": R. Akiva says: Scripture speaks of two tithes, the grain tithe and the animal tithe.
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Sifrei Devarim
R. Akiva says: I might think that one brings firstlings from outside of Eretz Yisrael to the land (to be sacrificed); it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "And you shall eat before the L-rd your G-d, in the place that He shall choose to repose His name there the tithe of your corn … and the firstlings." From the place whence you bring the corn tithe (i.e., Eretz Yisrael) you bring firstlings. From outside Eretz Yisrael, whence you do not bring the corn tithe, you do not bring firstlings.
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