26:1 And it shall be, when thou hast come in to the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and
possessest it, and dwellest therein;
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 to
the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name
there.
26:3 And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those
days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD thy God,
that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our
fathers to give us.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and set
it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
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 to
Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a
nation, great, mighty, and populous:
26:6 And the Egyptians ill-treated us, and afflicted us, and
laid upon us hard bondage:
26:7 And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD
heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor,
and our oppression:
26:8 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an out-stretched arm, and with great terribleness, and
with signs, and with wonders;
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.
26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first-fruits 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:
26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the
LORD thy God hath given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and
the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.
26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of
thy increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing,
and hast given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates,
and be filled:
26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have
brought away the hallowed things out of [my] house, and also
have given them to the Levite, and to 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]:
26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I
taken away [aught] of it for [any] unclean [use], nor given
[aught] of it 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.
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 didst swear to our fathers, a land that floweth with milk
and honey.
26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to perform
these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do
them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
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 to his voice:
26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his
peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou]
shouldst keep all his commandments;
26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath
made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou
mayest be a holy people to the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
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