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Deuteronomy 26:1-19 — Firstfruits and Tithes

Deut.26.1-19

¹When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it, ²you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you harvest from the land that the LORD your God is giving you, put it in a basket, and go to the place that the LORD your God will choose for his name to dwell there. ³You shall come to the priest who is serving in those days and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' ⁴Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God. ⁵And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean , and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, few in number; and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. ⁶And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us and laid hard labor on us. ⁷Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. ⁸And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders. ⁹And he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰And now, look, I have brought the first of the produce of the land that you, O LORD, have given me.' Then you shall set it before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. ¹¹And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your household, you and the Levite and the foreigner who is among you. ¹²When you have finished setting aside all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be satisfied. ¹³Then you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the holy portion from the house, and I have also given it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment that you commanded me. I have not transgressed your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. ¹⁴I have not eaten of it while in mourning, I have not removed any of it while unclean, and I have not given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that you commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.' ¹⁶This day the LORD your God is commanding you to do these statutes and judgments. You shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have declared that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments, and his judgments, and obey his voice. ¹⁸And today the LORD has declared that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, ¹⁹and that he will set you high above all the nations he has made, for praise and for renown and for honor, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

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4/11/2026

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