# Deuteronomy 26

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/26

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. When you have entered the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you have taken possession of it and settled in it,
2. you are to take some of the first of all the produce of the soil that you bring in from the land Yahweh your God is giving you. Put it in a basket and go to the place that Yahweh your God chooses to make his name dwell.
3. Go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors to give us.’
4. The priest is to take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of Yahweh your God.
5. Then you are to declare before Yahweh your God: ‘My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people and lived there as a foreigner, and there he became a great nation, powerful and numerous.
6. But the Egyptians mistreated us and oppressed us, and they forced hard labor on us.
7. So we cried out to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil, and our oppression.
8. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.
9. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10. So now I have brought the first of the produce of the soil that you, Yahweh, have given me.’ Then set it down before Yahweh your God and bow down before Yahweh your God.
11. You, the Levite, and the foreigner living among you are to rejoice in all the good things that Yahweh your God has given to you and your household.
12. When you have finished setting aside the full tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
13. Then say before Yahweh your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion from my house and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, in keeping with all the commandments you gave me. I have not turned aside from your commandments or forgotten any of them.
14. I have not eaten any of it while I was in mourning, I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, and I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done everything you commanded me.
15. Look down from your holy dwelling place, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.’
16. This very day Yahweh your God commands you to follow these statutes and ordinances. Be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.
17. Today you have declared that Yahweh is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and obey his voice.
18. And today Yahweh has declared that you are his people, his treasured possession, as he promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,
19. and that he will set you high above all the nations he has made, for praise, fame, and honor, and that you will be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he promised.”

## Nearby chapters

[Deuteronomy 25](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/25.md)
[Deuteronomy 27](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/27.md)

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