English: “I have removed the sacred from the house” — this is maaser sheni and neta revai. “And I have also given it to the Levite” — this is the Levite’s tithe. “And I have also given it” — this is terumah and terumat maaser. “To the stranger, the orphan and the widow” — this is the poor man’s tithe, leket, shikhehah and peah, even though they do not hold back the confession.
In Sifrei Devarim 303: The vidui is parsed phrase by phrase; each clause is assigned to a specific sacred gift so that the confession covers the full range of separations required by the Torah.
Type of Learning
Custom (phrase-by-phrase expansion of the declaration / distribution rule).
What Is Learned
The midrash extracts concrete legal and historical referents from each phrase of the verse, turning the brief biblical language into a detailed map of the mitzvah’s requirements and the experience it recalls.