Deuteronomy 26
Lexham English Bible
26 “And then[a] when you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it, 2 then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there. 3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, ‘I declare today[b] to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors[c] to give to us.’ 4 Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before[d] the altar of Yahweh your God. 5 And you shall declare[e] and you shall say before[f] your God, ‘My ancestor[g] was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien few in number,[h] and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. 6 And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor. 7 And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors,[i] and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. 8 And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders. 9 And he brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, look, I am bringing[j] the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,’ and you shall place it before[k] Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down before[l] Yahweh your God. 11 And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who is in your midst.
12 “When you are finished giving a tithe,[m] all of the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give to the Levite, to the alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and they may be satisfied. 13 And you shall say before[n] Yahweh your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion from the[o] house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten any of them. 14 I have not eaten during my time of mourning, and I have not removed anything from it while being unclean, and I have not offered any of it[p] to someone who has died. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done all that you commanded me to do. 15 Look down from the dwelling place of your holiness, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you swore to our ancestors,[q] a land flowing with milk and honey.’
16 “This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, and you must observe them diligently[r] with all your heart and with all your soul.[s] 17 Yahweh you have declared today[t] to be for you as your God, and to go[u] in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice. 18 And Yahweh has declared you today[v] to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised[w] to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments, 19 and that he then will set you[x] high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and for fame[y] and for honor and for you to be a holy people[z] to Yahweh your God, as he promised.”[aa]
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 26:1 Literally “And it shall happen”
- Deuteronomy 26:3 Literally “the day”
- Deuteronomy 26:3 Or “fathers”
- Deuteronomy 26:4 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “answer”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Or “father”
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “in people only a few”
- Deuteronomy 26:7 Or “fathers”
- Deuteronomy 26:10 Hebrew “I bring”
- Deuteronomy 26:10 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 26:10 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 26:12 Literally “to give a tenth”
- Deuteronomy 26:13 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 26:13 Or “my” house since the definite article can show possession here
- Deuteronomy 26:14 Literally “from it”
- Deuteronomy 26:15 Or “our fathers”
- Deuteronomy 26:16 Literally “and you shall observe and you shall do them”
- Deuteronomy 26:16 Or “inner self”
- Deuteronomy 26:17 Literally “the day”
- Deuteronomy 26:17 Or “to walk”
- Deuteronomy 26:18 Literally “the day”
- Deuteronomy 26:18 Literally “spoke”
- Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “and to set you”
- Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “for a name”
- Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “for you to be/your being a people holy”
- Deuteronomy 26:19 Literally “spoke”
Deuteronomy 26
American Standard Version
26 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Jehovah 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 ground, which thou shalt bring in from thy land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. 3 And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah thy God, that I am come unto the land which Jehovah sware unto our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God. 5 And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A [a]Syrian [b]ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 and we cried unto Jehovah, the God of our fathers, and Jehovah heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression; 8 and Jehovah 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, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God: 11 and thou shalt rejoice in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of thee.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled. 13 And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I 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 ground which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
16 This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast avouched Jehovah this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice: 18 and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, [c]in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Hebrew Aramean.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Or, wandering. Or, lost
- Deuteronomy 26:19 Or, for a praise, and for a name, and for an honor
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