1When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,
2take some of the firstfruits of all the produce of the soil that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his name
3and say to the priest in office at the time, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.'
4The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.
5Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.
6But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, subjecting us to harsh labor.
7Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil, and oppression.
8So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.
9He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10And now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, LORD, have given me.' Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.
11Then you and the Levites and the foreigners among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
12When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year — the year of the tithe — you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
13Then say to the LORD your God: 'I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.
14I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.
15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our ancestors — a land flowing with milk and honey.'
16The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. Keep them carefully with all your heart and all your soul.
17Today you have declared that the LORD is your God, that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and ordinances, and listen to him.
18And today the LORD has declared that you are his treasured people, as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands,
19that he will set you in praise, fame, and honor high above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.