26:1 And it shall be when thou shalt have
entered into the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit it, and
thou shalt have inherited it, and thou shalt have dwelt upon it,
26:2 that thou shalt take of the first of the fruits of thy land, which the
Lord thy God gives thee, and thou shalt put them into a basket, and thou
shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name
called there.
26:3 And thou shalt come to the priest who shall be in those days, and thou
shalt say to him, I testify this day to the Lord my God, that I am come into
the land which the Lord sware to our fathers to give to us.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hands, and shall set
it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
26:5 and he shall answer and say before the Lord thy God, My father
abandoned Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small
number, and became there a mighty nation and a great multitude.
26:6 And the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed hard tasks
on us:
26:7 and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw
our humiliation, and our labour, and our affliction.
26:8 And the Lord brought us out of Egypt himself with his great strength,
and his mighty hand, and his high arm, and with great visions, and with
signs, and with wonders.
26:9 And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land
flowing with milk and honey.
26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the land,
which thou gavest me, O Lord, a land flowing with milk and honey: and thou
shalt leave it before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt worship before the
Lord thy God;
26:11 and thou shalt rejoice in all the good [things], which the Lord thy
God has given thee, [thou] and thy family, and the Levite, and the stranger
that is within thee.
26:12 And when thou shalt have completed all the tithings of thy fruits in
the third year, thou shalt give the second tenth to the Levite, and
stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in thy cities,
and be merry.
26:13 And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have fully collected the
holy things out of my house, and I have given them to the Levite, and the
stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, according to all commands which
thou didst command me: I did not transgress thy command, and I did not
forget it.
26:14 And in my distress I did not eat of them, I have not gathered of them
for an unclean purpose, I have not given of them to the dead; I have
hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, I have done as thou hast
commanded me.
26:15 Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people
Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our
fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.
26:16 On this day the Lord thy God charged thee to keep all the ordinances
and judgments; and ye shall observe and do them, with all your heart, and
with all your soul.
26:17 Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his
ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his
voice.
26:18 And the Lord has chosen thee this day that thou shouldest be to him a
peculiar people, as he said, to keep his commands;
26:19 and that thou shouldest be above all nations, as he has made thee
renowned, and a boast, and glorious, that thou shouldest be a holy people to
the Lord thy God, as he has spoken. |
26:1 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;
26:2 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.
26:3 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.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down
before the altar of the LORD thy God.
26:5 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:
26:6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us
hard bondage:
26:7 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:
26:8 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:
26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land,
even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
26:10 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:
26:11 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.
26:12 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;
26:13 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.
26:14 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.
26:15 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.
26:16 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.
26:17 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:
26:18 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;
26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise,
and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the
LORD thy God, as he hath spoken. |