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Deuteronomy 26
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- 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:
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- 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.
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