MLV(i)
1 And it will be, when you have come in to the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance and possess it and dwell in it,
2 that you will take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you and you will put it in a basket and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
3 And you will come to the priest who will be in those days and say to him, I profess this day to Jehovah your God, that I have come to the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest will take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
5 And you will answer and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish and he went down into Egypt and traveled 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 to 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 has brought us into this place and has 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 you, O Jehovah, have given me. And you will set it down before Jehovah your God and worship before Jehovah your God.
11 And you will rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your house, you and the Levite and the traveler who is in the midst of you.
12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you will give it to the Levite, to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
13 And you will say before Jehovah your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house and also have given them to the Levite and to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away from it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven and bless your people Israel and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
16 This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You will therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 You have avowed Jehovah to be your God this day and that you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances and listen to his voice.
18 And Jehovah has avowed you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you and that you should keep all his commandments, 19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in name and in honor and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.
3 And you will come to the priest who will be in those days and say to him, I profess this day to Jehovah your God, that I have come to the land which Jehovah swore to our fathers to give us. 4 And the priest will take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
5 And you will answer and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish and he went down into Egypt and traveled 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 to 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 has brought us into this place and has 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 you, O Jehovah, have given me. And you will set it down before Jehovah your God and worship before Jehovah your God.
11 And you will rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your house, you and the Levite and the traveler who is in the midst of you.
12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you will give it to the Levite, to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
13 And you will say before Jehovah your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house and also have given them to the Levite and to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away from it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven and bless your people Israel and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
16 This day Jehovah your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You will therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 You have avowed Jehovah to be your God this day and that you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances and listen to his voice.
18 And Jehovah has avowed you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you and that you should keep all his commandments, 19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in name and in honor and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, as he has spoken.