26Deuteronomy 26

1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,Select Deuteronomy 26:1

2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Select Deuteronomy 26:2

3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”Select Deuteronomy 26:3

4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.Select Deuteronomy 26:4

5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.Select Deuteronomy 26:5

6The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.Select Deuteronomy 26:6

7Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.Select Deuteronomy 26:7

8Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;Select Deuteronomy 26:8

9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.Select Deuteronomy 26:9

10Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.Select Deuteronomy 26:10

11You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in your midst.Select Deuteronomy 26:11

12When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.Select Deuteronomy 26:12

13You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.Select Deuteronomy 26:13

14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.Select Deuteronomy 26:14

15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”Select Deuteronomy 26:15

16This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.Select Deuteronomy 26:16

17You have declared this day that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.Select Deuteronomy 26:17

18Yahweh has declared this day that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.Select Deuteronomy 26:18

19He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.Select Deuteronomy 26:19