1 “And it will be, when you come into the land which your God YHWH has given to you for an inheritance, and you possess it and stay in it, 2 that you take from the first of all the fruits of the ground, which you bring in out of your land which your God YHWH has given to you, and will put it in a basket, and go to the place which your God YHWH chose to cause His name to stay there. 3 And you will come to the priest who will be in those days, and say to him, I have declared to your God YHWH today that I have come into the land which YHWH has sworn to our fathers to give to us. 4 And the priest will take the basket out of your hand and place it before the altar of your God YHWH. 5 And you will answer and say before your God YHWH, My father was a perishing Aramean! And he went down to Egypt, and sojourns there with few men, and became a great, mighty, and populous nation there. 6 And the Egyptians did us evil, and afflicted us, and put hard service on us. 7 And we cried to YHWH, God of our fathers, and YHWH heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression. 8 And YHWH brought us out from Egypt by a strong hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great fear, and by signs, and by wonders, 9 And He brought us to this place, and gave this land to us—a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And now, look, I have brought in the first of the fruits of the ground which you have given to me, O YHWH. (And you will place it before your God YHWH, and bow yourself before your God YHWH, 11 and rejoice in all the good which your God YHWH has given to you and to your house—you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in your middle.) 12 When you complete to tithe all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you will give to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they will eat within your gates and be satisfied, 13 and you will say before your God YHWH, I have put away the separated thing out of the house, and have also given it to the Levite, and to the sojourner, and to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all Your commands which You have commanded me. I have not passed over from Your commands, nor have I forgotten. 14 I have not eaten of it in my affliction, nor have I put away of it for uncleanness, nor have I given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of my God YHWH. I have done according to all that You have commanded me. 15 Look from Your holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Your people Israel and the ground which You have given to us, as You have sworn to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey. 16 This day your God YHWH will be commanding you to do these statutes and judgments. And you will listen and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today you will proclaim YHWH to be to you for God, that you are to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to listen to His voice. 18 And today YHWH will proclaim you to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, as He had spoken to you, that you are to keep all His commands, 19 so as to make you highest above all the nations whom He has made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for your being a holy people to your God YHWH, as He has spoken.”