05:026:005 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:
05:026:006 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and
afflicted us, and
laid
upon us hard bondage:
05:026:007 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:
05:026:008 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:
05:026:009 And he hath brought us into this place,
and hath given us this
land,
even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
05:026:010 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:
05:026:011 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.
05:026:012 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;
05:026:013 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.
05:026:014 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.
05:026:015 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.
05:026:016 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.


