26 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 labour, 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. 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 honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD
thy God, as he hath spoken.