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Chapter 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; |
| 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 labor, 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. |
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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 honor; and that
thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. |
