“1 And it shall be, when thou [art] come in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and possessest it, and
dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit
of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God
giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto the place
which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou
shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him,
I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the
country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the
priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before
the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the
LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down
into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation,
great, mighty, and populous: 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And when we cried unto
the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our
affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 8 And the LORD brought
us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm,
and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he
hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, [even] a
land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have
brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me.
And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the
LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the
LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the
Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.”
“12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing, and hast given
[it] unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that
they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say
before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of
[mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the
stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy
commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]: 14 I have not eaten
thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for
[any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I
have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done
according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 Look down from thy holy
habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which
thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.”
“16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes
and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to
be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And
the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he
hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.” (Deuteronomy 26:1-19
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