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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;
02 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.
03 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.
04 And the priest shall take the basket out of
thine hand, and set it down before the altar of
the Lord thy God.
05 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:
06 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
07 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:
08 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:
09 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.
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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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