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1 And it will be, when you [have] come in to the land which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you [for] an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein;
2 That you will take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you will gather from your land that the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you, and will put [it] in a basket, and will go to the place which the LORD [Yahweh] your God will choose to place his name there.
3 And you will go to the priest that will be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD [Yahweh] your God, that I am come to the country which the LORD [Yahweh] swore to our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest will take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD [Yahweh] your God.
5 And you will speak and say before the LORD [Yahweh] your 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 to the LORD [Yahweh] God of our fathers, the LORD [Yahweh] heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
8 And the LORD [Yahweh] 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 has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, [even] a land that flows with milk and honey.
10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD [Yahweh], have given me. And you will set it before the LORD [Yahweh] your God, and worship before the LORD [Yahweh] your God:
11 And you will rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD [Yahweh] your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.
12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, [which is] the year of tithing, and have given [it] to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
Tithes were given every third year.
13 Then you will say before the LORD [Yahweh] your God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [my] house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed your commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:
14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] of it for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] of it for the dead: [but] I have listened to the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] my God, [and] have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land that flows with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD [Yahweh] your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments: you will therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
17 You have acknowledged the LORD [Yahweh] this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice:
18 And the LORD [Yahweh] has acknowledged you this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that [you] should keep all his commandments;
19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD [Yahweh] your God, as he has spoken.