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And thou shalt go unto the priest who shall be in those days, and say unto him, `I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I have come unto the country which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us.'
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
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"And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: `A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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And the Egyptians evilly treated us and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.
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And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
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And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great fearsomeness, and with signs and with wonders;
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and He hath brought us into this place and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which Thou, O LORD, hast given me.' And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God;
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and thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger who is among you.
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"When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates and be filled,
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then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God: `I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Thy commandments which Thou hast commanded me. I have not transgressed Thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.