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Bringing First Fruits and Tithes

¹ "Then it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance and you possess it and live in it,² that you shall take some of ^(C1)the first of all the fruit of the ground which you bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and ^(C2)go to the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.³ "And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, 'I declare this day to Yahweh ^(F1)my God that I have entered the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.'⁴ "Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.⁵ "And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, '^(C1)My father was a ^(F1)wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and ^(F2)sojourned there, ^(C2)few in number; but there he became a ^(C3)great, mighty, and populous nation.⁶ 'And the ^(C1)Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us and imposed hard slave labor on us.⁷ 'Then ^(C1)we cried out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;^8 (C1)and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;⁹ and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(C1)a land flowing with milk and honey.¹⁰ 'So now behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground ^(C1)which You, O Yahweh, have given me.' And you shall set it down before Yahweh your God and worship before Yahweh your God;¹¹ and you and ^(C1)the Levite and the sojourner who is among you shall ^(C2)be glad in all the good which Yahweh your God has given you and your household.

¹² "^(C1)When you have finished ^(F1)paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the ^(F2)orphan, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied.¹³ "Then you shall say before Yahweh your God, 'I have purged the sacred portion from my house, and I also have given it to the Levite and the sojourner, the ^(F1)orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; ^(C1)I have not trespassed against or forgotten any of Your commandments.¹⁴ 'I have not eaten of it ^(F1)while mourning, nor have I purged any of it while I was unclean, nor have I given any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.¹⁵ '^(C1)Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the ground which You have given to us, ^(C2)a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.'

¹⁶ "This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and judgments. You shall therefore be careful to do them ^(C1)with all your heart and with all your soul.¹⁷ "^(C1)You have today declared Yahweh to be your God, and ^(F1)that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and listen to His voice.¹⁸ "And Yahweh has today declared you to be ^(C1)His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and ^(F1)that you should keep all His commandments;¹⁹ and ^(F1)that He will ^(C1)set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, a name, and beauty; and that you shall be ^(C2)a holy people to Yahweh your God, as He has spoken."