1Når I har taget det land i besiddelse, som Herren har lovet jer, og er begyndt at dyrke jorden,2skal I hver især bringe den første del af hvert års høst i en kurv til præsten, der gør tjeneste i Herrens helligdom, og sige til ham: ‚Denne gave er min påskønnelse af, at Herren har ført os til det land, han lovede vores forfædre.’4Præsten skal modtage din kurv og sætte den ned foran Herrens alter.5Du skal give udtryk for din taknemmelighed til Herren ved at sige: ‚Jeg nedstammer fra en omvandrende aramæer, der med sin familie søgte tilflugt i Egypten. De var kun få dengang, men mens de boede som fremmede i landet, blev de til et stort og mægtigt folk.6Egypterne gjorde os til slaver og mishandlede os,7men vi råbte til dig, vores fædres Gud, og du hørte os og så vores lidelse og elendighed.8Da greb du ind og sendte frygtelige plager over Egypten, og du førte os ud med magt og vælde9og førte os til dette land, som „flyder med mælk og honning”.10Derfor kommer jeg nu til dig, Herre, med noget af den første høst fra den jord, du har givet mig.’ Efter denne bøn skal kurven stilles ned for Herrens ansigt, og du skal tilbede ham.11Du og din familie skal glæde jer sammen med levitterne og de fremmede, der bor i landet, mens I nyder frugten af den velsignelse, Herren har givet jer.12Hvert tredje år skal I tage en tiendedel af jeres afgrøder og give den til levitterne, de fremmede, enkerne og de forældreløse, så de kan spise sig mætte.13Når det er gjort, skal I bede følgende bøn til Herren, jeres Gud: ‚Nu har jeg givet den del, som er helliget dig, til de trængende, sådan som du har befalet. Jeg har ikke glemt eller overtrådt nogen af dine befalinger.14Jeg har ikke rørt ved tienden, mens jeg var i sorg eller var uren. Jeg har heller ikke ofret noget til de døde, men jeg har adlydt Herren, min Gud, og gjort, hvad han har befalet mig.15Se derfor i nåde til os fra din hellige bolig i Himlen. Velsign dit folk og det land, du har givet os, et land, der „flyder med mælk og honning”, sådan som du lovede vores forfædre.’
Påmindelse om pagten mellem Herren og hans folk
16Herren, jeres Gud, pålægger jer i dag at adlyde hans love og bestemmelser af hele jeres hjerte og hele jeres sjæl.17I har i dag bekræftet jeres pagt med Herren. Det betyder, at han vil være jeres Gud, og at I vil holde jer til hans veje, lytte til hans røst og følge hans love og forskrifter.18Det betyder, at I vil være hans ejendomsfolk, som han har udvalgt, og at I derfor vil overholde alle hans befalinger.19Gør I det, vil han gøre jer til en mægtig nation, større end nogen anden nation, han har skabt, så I kan bringe ham ære og lovsang og være et helligt folk, indviet til Herren, sådan som han har sagt.”
English Standard Version
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,2you 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 go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.3And 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 that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’4Then 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 wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.6And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.7Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.8And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror,* with signs and wonders.9And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.10And 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.11And you 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.12“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,13then you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.14I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’16“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.17You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.18And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,19and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”
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