Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 26

Deut 26:1 “And it shall be, when you come into the land which יהוה your
Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
Deut 26:2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruits of the soil
which you bring from your land that יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and shall
put it in a basket and go to the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make
His Name dwell there.
Deut 26:3 “And you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and
say to him, ‘I shall declare today to יהוה your Elohim that I have come to the
land which יהוה swore to our fathers to give us.’
Deut 26:4 “And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it
before the altar of יהוה your Elohim.
Deut 26:5 “And you shall answer and say before יהוה your Elohim, ‘My
father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and
sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty,
and numerous.
Deut 26:6 ‘But the Mitsrites did evil to us, and afflicted us, and imposed
hard labour on us.
Deut 26:7 ‘Then we cried out to יהוה Elohim of our fathers, and יהוה heard
our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.
Deut 26:8 ‘And יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand and with
an outstretched arm, with great fear and with signs and wonders.
Deut 26:9 ‘And He brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a
land flowing with milk and honey.”
Deut 26:10 ‘And now, see, I have brought the first-fruits of the land which
You, O יהוה, have given me.’ Then you shall place it before יהוה your Elohim,
and bow down before יהוה your Elohim,
Deut 26:11 and shall rejoice in all the good which יהוה your Elohim has
given to you and your house, you and the Lĕwite and the stranger who is
among you.
Deut 26:12 “When you have completed tithing all the tithe of your increase
in the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Lĕwite,
to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within
your gates and have been satisfied,
Deut 26:13 then you shall say before יהוה your Elohim, ‘I have put away the
set-apart portion from my house, and also have given it to the Lĕwite, and to
the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Your
command which You have commanded me. I have not transgressed Your
commands, nor have I forgotten.
Deut 26:14 ‘I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed
any of it for any unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed
the voice of יהוה my Elohim, I have done according to all that You have
commanded me.
Deut 26:15 ‘Look from Your set-apart dwelling place, from the heavens, and
bless Your people Yisra’ĕl and the land which You have given us, as You
swore to our fathers, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
Deut 26:16 “Today יהוה your Elohim is commanding you to do these laws
and right-rulings. And you shall guard and do them with all your heart and
with all your being.
Deut 26:17 “You have today caused יהוה to proclaim to be your Elohim, and
to walk in His ways and guard His laws, and His commands, and His right-
rulings, and to obey His voice.
Deut 26:18 “And יהוה has caused you to proclaim today to be His people, a
treasured possession, as He has spoken to you, and to guard all His
commands,
Deut 26:19 so as to set you high above all nations which He has made, for a
praise, and for a name, and for esteem, and for you to be a set-apart people to
יהוה your Elohim, as He has spoken.”