[[Deuteronomy 25|<< Deuteronomy 25]] | [[Deuteronomy|Deuteronomy]] | [[Deuteronomy 27|Deuteronomy 27 >>]] ### Deuteronomy 26 1 AND it shall be, when thou _art_ come in unto the land which the LORD thy God gives thee _for_ an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; ^1 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 gives 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. ^2 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 swore unto our fathers for to give us. ^3 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. ^4 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: ^5 6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: ^6 7 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: ^7 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: ^8 9 And he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, _even_ a land that flows with milk and honey. ^9 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: ^10 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good _thing_ which the LORD thy God has given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that _is_ among you. ^11 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; ^12 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:_ ^13 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. ^14 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 flows with milk and honey. ^15 16 ¶ This day the LORD thy God has commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. ^16 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: ^17 18 And the LORD has avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised thee, and that _thou_ shouldest keep all his commandments; ^18 19 And to make thee high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he has spoken. ^19