The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Deuteronomy (WEB)
26: 1It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein, 26:2that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall
put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his
name to dwell there. 26:3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, I
profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our
fathers to give us. 26:4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the
altar of Yahweh your God. 26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and
he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and
afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage: 26:7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and
Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 26:8and Yahweh
brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great
terror, and with signs, and with wonders; 26:9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us
this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 26:10Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit
of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your
God, and worship before Yahweh your God: 26:11and you shall rejoice in all the good which
Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who
is in the midst of you. 26:12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in
the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to
the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled. 26:13You shall
say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have
given them to the Levite, and to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all
your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your
commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither
have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of
Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 26:15Look down from
your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have
given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. 26:16This day Yahweh
your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do
them with all your heart, and with all your soul. 26:17You have declared Yahweh this day to be your
God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
ordinances, and listen to his voice: 26:18and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 26:19and
to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and
that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
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