DE-26:1  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;

DE-26:2  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.

DE-26:3  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.

DE-26:4  And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,

and set it

down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

DE-26:5  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:

DE-26:6  And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us,

and laid upon

us hard bondage:

DE-26:7  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:

DE-26:8  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:

DE-26:9  And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given

us this land,

[even] a land that floweth with milk and honey.

DE-26:10  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:

DE-26:11  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.

DE-26:12  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;

DE-26:13  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]:

DE-26:14  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.

DE-26:15  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.

DE-26:16  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.

DE-26:17  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:

DE-26:18  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;

DE-26:19  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.

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