Deuteronomy 26 · Parashat Ki Tavo

And it shall be, when thou art come in to the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and dost possess it and dost dwelt therein:

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 gives thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.

And thou shalt go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the Lord thy God, that I am come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.

And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.

And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, An Arammian nomad was my father, and he went down to Miżrayim, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

and the Miżrim dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

and when we cried to the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

and the Lord brought us out of Miżrayim with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

and he brought us to this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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:

and thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God has given thee, and thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be replete;

then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have removed the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to 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:

I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I consumed any part of it when unclean, nor given of it 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.

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Yisra᾽el, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

This day the Lord thy God has commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

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 to his voice:

and the Lord has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou shouldst keep all his commandments;

and to make thee high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayst be a holy people to the Lord thy God, as he has spoken.