Deuteronomy 26

And it will happen, when you have come into the land that God your God is giving to you {as} an inheritance and you possess it and live in it,

then you shall take from the first of all the harvest of the land that you have brought in from the land that God your God is giving to you. And you shall put {it} in a basket and go to the place that God your God will choose to make his name stay there. \*

And you shall go to the priest who will be in those days and say to him, ‘I declare today to God your God that I have come to the land that God swore to our fathers to give to us.’

And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it to the face of the altar of God your God. \*

And you shall respond and say to the face of God your God, \* ‘My father {was} a wandering Aramean. And he went down to Egypt and stayed there, his people {were} few, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.

And the Egyptians treated us badly and afflicted us. And they set hard work upon us.

And we cried out to God, the God of our fathers, and God heard our voice and saw our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

And God brought us out from Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great fearsomeness and with signs and with wonders;

and he has brought us to this place and has given to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. \*

And now, behold, I have brought the first of the harvest of the land that God has given to me.’ And you shall set it down to the face of God your God and bow down to the face of God your God,

and you shall rejoice in all the good that God your God has given to you and to your house—you and the Levite and the foreigner who {is} among you. \*

When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your harvest in the third year (the year of tithing), then you shall give {it} to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they may eat within your gates and be satisfied.

And you shall say to the face of God your God, \* ‘I have removed from my house the things set apart, and also have given it to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten.

I have not eaten from it in my mourning, nor have I removed from it in sin, nor have I given from it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of God my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

Look down from your holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless your people, Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you had sworn to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ \*

This day God your God is commanding you to obey these statutes and ordinances, and you shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

God you have declared today to be your God, and to walk in his ways and to keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances, and to listen to his voice. \*

Today God has declared that you are his, a people for a possession, as he had spoken to you, and to keep all his commandments,

and he will set you high above all the nations that he has made, for praise and for a name and for beauty. And you will be a sanctified people for God your God, just as he has spoken.” \*