Anise (dill)

Anise — likely dill, given the Greek word Jesus used — was another common kitchen herb swept up in the same complaint about tithing the smallest things while ignoring the largest. It cost almost nothing and grew easily, which was exactly the point of Jesus’ criticism.

• “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”

  Matthew 23:23

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