Deuteronomy Chapter 26

• Deuteronomy 26:1
  Deuteronomy.
• Deuteronomy 26:2
  It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,
• Deuteronomy 26:3
  that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you. You sh...
• Deuteronomy 26:4
  You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to the LORD your God, that I have come to the land which the L...
• Deuteronomy 26:5
  The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God’s altar.
• Deuteronomy 26:6
  You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. T...
• Deuteronomy 26:7
  The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.
• Deuteronomy 26:8
  Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. The LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
• Deuteronomy 26:9
  The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;
• Deuteronomy 26:10
  and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deuteronomy 26:11
  Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD, have given me.” You shall set it down before the LORD your God,...
• Deuteronomy 26:12
  You shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you...
• Deuteronomy 26:13
  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, t...
• Deuteronomy 26:14
  You shall say before the LORD your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to...
• Deuteronomy 26:15
  I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the LORD...
• Deuteronomy 26:16
  Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a...
• Deuteronomy 26:17
  Today the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your s...
• Deuteronomy 26:18
  You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and l...
• Deuteronomy 26:19
  The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
• Deuteronomy 26:20
  He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as...