Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes
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"When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,
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1you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall 2go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
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And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land 3that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'
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Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
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"And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A 4wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, 5few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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And 6the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
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Then 7we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
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And 8the LORD brought us out of Egypt 9with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,a with signs and wonders.
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And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, 10a land flowing with milk and honey.
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And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.
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And 11you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.
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"When you have finished paying all 12the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is 13the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,
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then you shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, 14nor have I forgotten them.
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15I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it 16to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
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17Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.'
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"This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
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18You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
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And the LORD has declared today that you are 19a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)