1: 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.