Deuteronomy 26

¹ It will come to be when you come into the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment, and you tenant it and dwell in it, ² that you will take from the first of all the fruit of the ground which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, and you will place it in a basket and go to the place where Yahweh your Elohim shall choose to tabernacle His name. ³ And you will come to the priest who shall come to be in those days and say to him: I profess today to Yahweh my Elohim that I have come to the land about which Yahweh had sworn to our fathers to give to us. ⁴ Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and leave it before the altar of Yahweh your Elohim. ⁵ And you will respond and say before Yahweh your Elohim: My father was a lost Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, sojourned there with few adult males and became there a nation, great, substantial and numerous. ⁶ The Egyptians did evil to us, humiliated us and put hard service on us. ⁷ But we cried to Yahweh Elohim of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our humiliation, our toil and our oppression. ⁸ Then Yahweh brought us forth from Egypt with a steadfast hand and with an outstretched arm, with great fear-inspiring deeds, with signs and with miracles. ⁹ And He brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land gushing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ Now behold, I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that You have given to me, Yahweh. Then you will leave it before Yahweh your Elohim and bow yourself down before Yahweh your Elohim. ¹¹ You will rejoice in all the good that Yahweh your Elohim gives to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the sojourner who is among you. ¹² When you conclude tithing all the tithe from the yield of your land in the third year, the year of the tithe, and you have given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied, ¹³ then you will say before Yahweh your Elohim: I have taken out the holy gift from the house and have indeed given it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the orphan and to the widow according to all Your instruction that You have enjoined on me. I have not turned aside from Your instructions, and I have not forgotten. ¹⁴ I have not eaten of it in my sorrow; I have not taken out any of it while unclean, and I have not given of it for the dead. I have hearkened to the voice of Yahweh my Elohim. I have done according to all that You have instructed me. ¹⁵ Gaze from Your holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Your people Israel and the ground that You have given to us just as You had sworn to our fathers - a land gushing with milk and honey. ¹⁶ This day Yahweh your Elohim is instructing you to keep these statutes and judgments, and you will observe and obey them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷ To Yahweh have you affirmed today that He is to be your Elohim, and you are to go in His ways and to observe His statutes, His instructions and His judgments and to hearken to His voice. ¹⁸ As for Yahweh, He affirms today that you are to be for Him a special people, just as He promised to you, and that you are to observe all His instructions; ¹⁹ then He promises to give you supremacy over all the nations which He has made, for praise, for a name and for beauty, and for you to be a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim just as He has promised.