Of firstfruits -- Third year's tithes -- The covenant between God and the people.

¹⁾And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORDLord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;

²⁾That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORDLord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORDLord thy God shall choose to place his name there.

³⁾And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORDLord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORDLord sware unto our fathers for to give us.

⁴⁾And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORDLord thy God.

⁵⁾And thou shalt speak and say before the LORDLord 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:;

⁶⁾And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:;

⁷⁾And when we cried unto the LORDLord God of our fathers, the LORDLord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:;

⁸⁾And the LORDLord 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:;

⁹⁾And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

¹⁰⁾And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORDLord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORDLord thy God, and worship before the LORDLord thy God:;

¹¹⁾And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORDLord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

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;

¹³⁾Then thou shalt say before the LORDLord 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.;

¹⁴⁾I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away oughtaught thereof for any unclean use, nor given oughtaught thereof for the dead:; but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORDLord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

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.

¹⁶⁾This day the LORDLord 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.

¹⁷⁾Thou hast avouched the LORDLord 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:;

¹⁸⁾And the LORDLord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

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 ana holy people unto the LORDLord thy God, as he hath spoken.