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Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes

1 “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, 2 ^ayou shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall ^bgo to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there. 3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land ^cthat the Lord 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 the Lord your God.

5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A ^dwandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there ^efew in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And ^fthe Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then ^gwe cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 And ^hthe Lord brought us out of Egypt ⁱwith a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, ^{▼

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Hebrew with great terror} with signs and wonders. 9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, ^ka land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. 11 And ^lyou shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.