| 1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Jehovah
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
ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth
thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3 And thou
shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I
profess this day unto Jehovah thy God, that I am come unto the land which
Jehovah sware unto our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the
basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
5 And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy 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.
6 And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us
hard bondage: 7 and we cried unto Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and
Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression; 8 and Jehovah 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, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now,
behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O
Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God,
and worship before Jehovah thy God: 11 and thou shalt rejoice in all the
good which Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou,
and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of thee.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase
in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto
the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates, and be filled. 13 And thou shalt say before
Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and
also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou
hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither
have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither
have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I
have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I 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 ground which thou hast given us,
as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and
ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched Jehovah this day to be thy God,
and that thou wouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his
commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice: 18 and
Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as
he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise,
and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah
thy God, as he hath spoken.
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