◀- Deuteronomy 26
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Offering Firstfruits and Tithes
(1) "It shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it,
(2) that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you, and shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose to place his name there.
(3) And you shall go to him who is the priest in those days, and say to him, 'I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'
(4) Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
(5) And you shall respond and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and dwelt there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
(6) And the Egyptians punished us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage.
(7) 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.
(8) So the LORD 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.
(9) And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.
(10) Now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.
(11) You shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger who is among YOU.
The Prayer of Him that Gives His Third Year’s Tithes
(12) When you have finished giving all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates, and be filled,
(13) then you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the holy 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 your commandments which you have commanded me; I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
(14) I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead, but I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that you have commanded me.
(15) Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.'
The Covenant Between God and His People
(16) This day the LORD your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments; you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
(17) You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to 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 honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.