Deuteronomy 26
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"And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
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a "that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and b go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
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"And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'
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"Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
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"And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: 'My father was c a Syrian, d about to perish, and e he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, f few in number; and there he became a nation, g great, mighty, and populous.
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'But the h Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.
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i 'Then we cried out to the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression.
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'So j the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, k with great terror and with signs and wonders.
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'He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, l "a land flowing with milk and honey";
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'and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O LORD, have given me.' Then you shall set it before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.
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"So m you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you.
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"When you have finished laying aside all the n tithe of your increase in the third year - o the year of tithing - and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled,
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"then you shall say before the LORD your God: 'I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, p nor have I forgotten them.
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q 'I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me.
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r 'Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, s "a land flowing with milk and honey." '
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"This day the LORD your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.
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"Today you have t proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will u obey His voice.
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"Also today v the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,
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"and that He will set you w high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be x a holy people to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken."
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Cross References
Exodus 22:29
You shall not delay to offer the first of your ...
Exodus 23:16
And the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of yo...
Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of your land you s...
Numbers 18:13
Whatever first ripe fruit is in their land, whi...
Deuteronomy 16:10
Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the L...
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with ...
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
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Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.
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Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 43:2
And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, "Go back, buy us a little food.
Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:11
"There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine."'
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Genesis 46:1
So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:6
So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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Cross References
Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.
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Deuteronomy 1:10
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
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Cross References
Exodus 1:8 - 11
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage - in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
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Cross References
Exodus 2:23 - 25
Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 3:9
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Cross References
Exodus 12:37
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rame...
Exodus 12:51
And it came to pass, on that very same day, tha...
Exodus 13:3
And Moses said to the people: "Remember this da...
Exodus 13:14
So it shall be, when your son asks you in time ...
Exodus 13:16
"It shall be as a sign on your hand and as fron...
Deuteronomy 5:15
And remember that you were a slave in the land ...
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Deuteronomy 4:34
Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 34:11
In all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land.
Deuteronomy 34:12
And by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
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Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17
"and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:7
And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor - it is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:18 - 20
Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:30
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's. It is holy to the LORD.
Numbers 18:24
"For the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up as a heave offering to the LORD, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I have said to them, 'Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.'"
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:28
At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates.
Deuteronomy 14:29
And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
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Cross References
Psalms 119:141
I am small and despised, Yet I do not forget Your precepts.
Psalms 119:153
Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.
Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.
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Leviticus 7:20
But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, while he is unclean, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Jeremiah 16:7
Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.
Hosea 9:4
They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.
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Cross References
Psalms 80:14
Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?
Zechariah 2:13
"Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!"
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Cross References
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
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Exodus 20:19
Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
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Deuteronomy 15:5
Only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.
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Exodus 6:7
I will take you as My people, and I will be you...
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice...
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God;...
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God,...
Deuteronomy 28:9
The LORD will establish you as a holy people to...
Titus 2:14
Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem u...
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priest...
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?
Deuteronomy 4:8
And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 28:1
Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
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Cross References
Exodus 19:6
'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:9
The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Isaiah 62:12
And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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