THE BOOK OF
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTERS 18-26
1 ¶ The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi,
shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall
eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
2 Therefore shall
they have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance,
as he hath said unto them.
3 And this shall
be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the
priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4 The firstfruit
also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of
thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
5 For the LORD
thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
6 And if a Levite
come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with
all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
7 Then he shall
minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
8 They shall have
like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
9 ¶ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations.
10
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of
times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer,
or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and
because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before
thee.
13 Thou shalt be
perfect with the LORD thy God.
14 For these
nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto
diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
15 ¶ The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet
from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken;
16 According to all
that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD
said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise
them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my
words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall
speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the
prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou
say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet
speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass,
that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of
him.
1 ¶ When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose
land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their cities, and in their houses;
2
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
3 Thou shalt
prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
4 And this is the
case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time
past;
5 As when a man
goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a
stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve,
and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those
cities, and live:
6
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot,
and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not
worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
7 Wherefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
8 And if the LORD
thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and
give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
9 If thou shalt
keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love
the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three
cities more for thee, beside these three:
10 That innocent
blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
11 But if any man
hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite
him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
12 Then the
elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the
hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
14 ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark,
which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit
in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth
of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 If a false
witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
17
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before
the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges
shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false
witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye
do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those
which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such
evil among you.
21 And thine eye
shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot.
1 ¶ When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies,
and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt.
2 And it shall
be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
3 And shall say
unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your
enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye
terrified because of them;
4 For the LORD your
God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies,
to save you.
5 And the
officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built
a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest
he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
6 And what man is
he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man eat of it.
7 And what man is
there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return
unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
8
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall
say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return
unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
9 And it shall
be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they
shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
10 ¶ When thou comest nigh unto a
city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
11 And it shall
be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that
all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they
shall serve thee.
12
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee,
then thou shalt besiege it:
13 And when the
LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male
thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 But the women,
and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou
shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
15 Thus shalt
thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of
the cities of these nations.
16 But of the
cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt
utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee:
18 That they
teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
19 When thou
shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou
shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou
mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field
is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20
Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou
shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city
that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
1 ¶ If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it
be not known who hath slain him:
2 Then thy elders
and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which
are round about him that is slain:
3 And it shall
be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that
city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not
drawn in the yoke;
4 And the elders
of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither
eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
5 And the priests
the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to
minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
6 And all the
elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands
over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
7 And they shall
answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
it.
8
Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed,
and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood
shall be forgiven them.
9 So shalt thou
put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that
which is right in the sight of the LORD.
10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war
against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine
hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
11 And seest among
the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest
have her to thy wife;
12 Then thou
shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
13 And she shall
put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house,
and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go
in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
14 And it shall
be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou
shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another
hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if
the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath,
that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the
hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
17 But he shall
acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double
portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right
of the firstborn is his.
18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which
will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that,
when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his
father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall
say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21 And all the
men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put
evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
22
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put
to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall
not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that
day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
1 ¶ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go
astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again
unto thy brother.
2 And if thy
brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring
it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after
it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
3 In like manner
shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all
lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt
thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
4 Thou shalt not
see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up
again.
5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
6 If a bird's
nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon
the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
7 But thou shalt
in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well
with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
8 When thou
buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall
from thence.
9 Thou shalt not
sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown,
and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 Thou shalt not
plow with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not
wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture,
wherewith thou coverest thyself.
13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate
her,
14 And give
occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I
took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring
forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the
gate:
16 And the
damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to
wife, and he hateth her;
17 And, lo, he
hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the
city.
18 And the elders
of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall
amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of
the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away
all his days.
20 But if this
thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 Then they
shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of
her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought
folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put
evil away from among you.
22 If a man be
found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them
die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put
away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel
that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall
bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with
stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and
the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away
evil from among you.
25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force
her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26 But unto the
damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death:
for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is
this matter:
27
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there
was none to save her.
28 If a man find
a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie
with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man
that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled
her, he may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall
not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
1 ¶ He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy
member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of
the LORD.
2 A bastard shall
not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall
he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
3 An Ammonite or
Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth
generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD
for ever:
4 Because they
met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of
Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
5 Nevertheless
the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy
God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved
thee.
6 Thou shalt not
seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
7 Thou shalt not
abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian;
because thou wast a stranger in his land.
8
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation
of the LORD in their third generation.
9 ¶ When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then
keep thee from every wicked thing.
10 If there be
among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the
camp, he shall not come within the camp:
11 But it shall
be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun
is down, he shall come into the camp again.
12 Thou shalt
have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt
have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself
abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which
cometh from thee:
14 For the LORD
thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp
be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
15 ¶ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant
which is escaped from his master unto thee:
16 He shall dwell
with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not
oppress him.
17 There shall be
no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18 Thou shalt not
bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD
thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
19 Thou shalt not
lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any
thing that is lent upon usury:
20 Unto a
stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend
upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
21 When thou
shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the
LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
22 But if thou
shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
23 That which is
gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God,
which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
24 When thou
comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at
thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
25 When thou
comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a
sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
1 ¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it
come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of
divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is
departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
3 And if the
latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in
her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which
took her to be his wife;
4 Her former
husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that
she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not
cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5 ¶ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out
to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but
he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath
taken.
6 No man shall
take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to
pledge.
7 If a man be
found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
8 Take heed in
the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all
that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall
observe to do.
9
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye
were come forth out of Egypt.
10 When thou dost
lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his
pledge.
11 Thou shalt
stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man
be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case
thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may
sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto
thee before the LORD thy God.
14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired
servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy
strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
15 At his day
thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is
poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD,
and it be sin unto thee.
16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall
the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death
for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not
pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's
raiment to pledge:
18 But thou shalt
remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy
God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 When thou
cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field,
thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of
thine hands.
20
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs
again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When thou
gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it
shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 And thou shalt
remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore
I command thee to do this thing.
1 ¶ If there be a controversy between men, and they come
unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous,
and condemn the wicked.
2
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the
judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according
to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes
he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above
these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and
have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in
the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And if the man
like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the
gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto
his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's
brother.
8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if
he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 Then shall his
brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe
from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it
be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
10
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his
shoe loosed.
11 When men
strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to
deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth
her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a
great and a small.
14 Thou shalt not
have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt
have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have:
that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For all that
do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD
thy God.
17 Remember what
Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
18
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all
that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not
God.
19 Therefore it
shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies
round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance
to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
1 ¶ And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and
dwellest therein;
2 That thou shalt
take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put
it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose
to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go
unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this
day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest
shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of
the LORD thy God.
5 And thou shalt
speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father,
and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
6 And the
Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
7 And when we
cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on
our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
8
And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with
an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with
wonders:
9 And he hath
brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
10 And now,
behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD
thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
11 And thou shalt
rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and
unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of
tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of
tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and
the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
13 Then thou
shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out
of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto
the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy
commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14 I have not
eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any
unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened
to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast
commanded me.
15 Look down from
thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land
which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth
with milk and honey.
16 ¶ This day the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep
and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast
avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep
his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
18 And the LORD
hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised
thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 And to make
thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in
honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.