26When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it,H935H776H3068H430H5414H5159H3423H3427 2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.H3947H7225H6529H127H935H776H3068H430H5414H7760H2935H1980H4725H3068H430H977H7931H8034 3You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time, and say to him, "Today I declare to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us."H935H3548H3117H559H5046H3117H3068H430H935H776H3068H7650H1H5414 4When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the LORD your God,H3548H3947H2935H3027H3240H6440H4196H3068H430 5you shall make this response before the LORD your God: "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.H6030H559H6440H3068H430H761H6H1H3381H4714H1481H4962H4592H1471H1419H6099H7227 6When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us,H4713H7489H6031H5414H7186H5656 7we cried to the LORD, the God of our ancestors; the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.H6817H3068H430H1H3068H8085H6963H7200H6040H5999H3906 8The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders;H3068H3318H4714H2389H3027H5186H2220H1419H4172H226H4159 9and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.H935H4725H5414H776H776H2100H2461H1706 10So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O LORD, have given me." You shall set it down before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God.H935H6529H7225H127H3068H5414H3240H6440H3068H430H7812H6440H3068H430 11Then you, together with the Levites and the aliens who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house.H8055H2896H3068H430H5414H1004H3881H1616H7130 12When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns,H3615H6237H4643H8393H7992H8141H8141H4643H5414H3881H1616H3490H490H398H8179H7646 13then you shall say before the LORD your God: "I have removed the sacred portion from the house, and I have given it to the Levites, the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows, in accordance with your entire commandment that you commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor forgotten any of your commandments:H559H6440H3068H430H1197H6944H1004H5414H3881H1616H3490H490H4687H6680H5674H4687H7911 14I have not eaten of it while in mourning; I have not removed any of it while I was unclean; and I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God, doing just as you commanded me.H398H205H1197H2931H5414H4191H8085H6963H3068H430H6213H6680 15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey."H8259H6944H4583H8064H1288H5971H3478H127H5414H7650H1H776H2100H2461H1706 16This very day the LORD your God is commanding you to observe these statutes and ordinances; so observe them diligently with all your heart and with all your soul.H3117H3068H430H6680H6213H2706H4941H8104H6213H3824H5315 17Today you have obtained the LORD's agreement: to be your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him.H559H3068H3117H430H3212H1870H8104H2706H4687H4941H8085H6963 18Today the LORD has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep his commandments;H3068H559H3117H5459H5971H1696H8104H4687 19for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.H5414H5945H1471H6213H8416H8034H8597H6918H5971H3068H430H1696
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