laboured and dragged behind, when thou wast fainted and weary, and he
feared not God. Therefore when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to inherit and possess: see that thou put out the name of
Amalech from under heaven, and forget not.
Chapter .xxvi.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit and hast enjoyed it and dwellest therein: take of the first of
all the fruit of the earth, which thou hast brought in out of the land
that the LORD thy God giveth thee and put it in a maund and go unto the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name dwell there.
And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days and say
unto him: I knowledge this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come
unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
And the priest shall take the maund out of thine hand, and set it down
before the altar of the LORD thy God. And thou shalt answer and say
before the LORD thy God: The Sirians would have destroyed my father,
and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and
grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people. And the
Egyptians vexed us and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage.
And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our
voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression. And the LORD
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and
with great terribleness and with signs and wonders. And he hath brought
us into this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk
and honey. And now lo, I have brought the first fruits of the land
which the LORD hath given me. And set it before the LORD thy God and
worship before the LORD thy God and rejoice over all the good thing
which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house, both
thou the Levite and the stranger that is among you. When thou hast made
an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, the
year of tithing: and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless and the widow, and they have eaten in thy gates and filled
them selves. Then say before the LORD thy God: I have brought thee
hallowed things out of mine house: and have given them unto the Levite,
the stranger, the fatherless and the widow according to all the
commandments which thou commandest me: I have not overskipped thy
commandments, nor forgotten them. I have not eaten thereof in my
mourning nor taken away thereof unto any uncleanness, nor spent thereof
about any dead corpse: but have hearkened unto the voice of the LORD my
God, and have done after all that he commanded me, look down from thy
holy habitation heaven and bless thy people Israel and the land which
thou hast given us (as thou swearest unto our fathers) a land that
floweth with milk and honey. This day the LORD thy God hath commanded
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