Chapter 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,
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, 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 swear unto our fathers for to give us.
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the
altar of the Lord thy God.
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, Assyrian, 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.
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard
bondage.
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.
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.
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land
that floweth with milk and honey.
And now behold, I have brought the first fruit to 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel,
and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swearest unto our fathers,
a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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.
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.
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, 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.