Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes

1 "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,

2 ¹you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall ²go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.

3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land ³that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

5 "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A ⁴wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, ⁵few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

6 And ⁶the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

7 Then ⁷we 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 And ⁸the LORD brought us out of Egypt ⁹with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,^[a] with signs and wonders.

9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, ¹⁰a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.

11 And ¹¹you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

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Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 26

This chapter treats of the basket of firstfruits to be brought and presented to the Lord, and the confession to be made along with it, De 26:1-11; and of the declaration to be made on the third year, the year of tithing, and the prayer annexed to it, De 26:12-15; and of the covenant made in a solemn manner between God and the people of Israel, De 26:16-19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. Deuteronomy 16:10; Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26; Numbers 15:20; Numbers 18:13; Proverbs 3:9
2. See Deuteronomy 12:5
3. Exodus 13:5; See Deuteronomy 1:8
4. Genesis 43:1, 2
5. [Deuteronomy 10:22; Genesis 46:27; Acts 7:14, 15]
6. Exodus 1:11, 14; Numbers 20:15
7. Exodus 2:23-25; Exodus 3:9; Numbers 20:16
8. Exodus 12:37, 51
9. See Deuteronomy 4:34
10. See Exodus 3:8
11. See Deuteronomy 12:7

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew with great terror

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