1 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, possess it and live in it, 2 take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground that you bring in from the land the LORD your God is giving you. Put it in a basket and go to the place the LORD your God will choose to make his name dwell there. 3 Go to the priest who is in office in those days and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4 The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God. 5 Then you shall declare before the LORD your God, ‘My father was an Aramean about to perish. He went down to Egypt and resided there as a foreigner with a few people, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation. 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard labor upon us. 7 We cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders. 9 He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, see, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground that you have given me, O LORD.’ Then set it before the LORD your God and bow down before the LORD your God. 11 You shall rejoice in all the good the LORD your God has given you and your household, you, the Levite, and the resident foreigner among you.

12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, and have given it to the Levite, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied, 13 then say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the holy portion from the house and also given it to the Levite, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to the whole commandment you commanded me. I have not transgressed your commandments or forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten any of it in my mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or given any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done all that you commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’

16 This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and judgments. You shall keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul. 17 Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his judgments, and listen to his voice. 18 And today the LORD has declared you to be his people, his treasured possession, as he has told you, and that you shall keep all his commandments, 19 and that he will set you high above all the nations he has made, in praise, in fame, and in glory, and that you shall be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.”