Deuteronomy 26

Revised Geneva Translation

26 “Also, when you shall come into the land which the LORD your God gives you for inheritance, and shall possess it, and dwell in it,

² “then you shall take from the first of all the fruit of the earth and bring it out of the land that the LORD your God gives you and put it in a basket and go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to place his Name there.

³ “And you shall come to the Priest appointed in those days and say to him, ‘This day, I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴ “Then the Priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

⁵ “And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ‘A Syrian, my father, being ready to perish, went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a small company, and there grew to a great nation, mighty and full of people.

⁶ ‘And the Egyptians troubled us, and afflicted us, and laid cruel bondage upon us.

⁷ ‘But when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, and on our labor, and on our oppression.

⁸ ‘And the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, with great terribleness, both in signs and wonders.

⁹ ‘And He has brought us into this place and has given us this land, a land that flows with milk and honey.

¹⁰ ‘And now, lo, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

¹¹ “And you shall rejoice in all the good things which the LORD your God has given to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.

¹² “When you have ended tithing all the tithes of your increase in the third year (the year of tithing) —and have given it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied—

¹³ “then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have brought the hallowed thing out of my house and have also given it to the Levites, to the strangers, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your Commandments which You have commanded me. I have transgressed none of the Commandments, nor forgotten.

¹⁴ ‘I have not eaten from it in my mourning, nor allowed anything to perish through uncleanness, nor given anything from it for the dead. I have obeyed the Voice of the LORD my God. I have followed 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) the land that flows with milk and honey.’

¹⁶ “This day, the LORD your God Commands you to do these Ordinances and Laws. Keep them, therefore, and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁷ “You have set up the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His Ordinances and His Commandments and His Laws, and to obey His Voice.

¹⁸ “And the LORD has set you up this day to be a precious people to Him (as He has promised you), so that you should keep all His Commandments

¹⁹ “And He makes you high above all nations which He has made—in praise and in name and in glory—so that you should be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has said.”