奉献初熟的物产
1“你们进入你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们作产业的土地，征服那里，安居下来以后， 2要把在那里收获的各种初熟的物产放在篮子里，带到你们的上帝耶和华选定的敬拜场所。 3你们要对当值的祭司说，‘今天我们要向我们的上帝耶和华宣告，我们已经进入祂向我们祖先起誓要赐给我们的土地。’ 4祭司要从你们手中接过篮子，放在你们的上帝耶和华的祭坛前。 5你们要在你们的上帝耶和华面前宣告，‘我们的祖先原是到处流浪的亚兰人。他到埃及寄居时，家中人丁稀少，后来成为人口众多的强大民族。 6埃及人苦待我们，压迫我们，强迫我们做奴隶。 7于是，我们呼求我们祖先的上帝耶和华。祂听见我们的呼求，看见我们的艰难、困苦和所受的压迫， 8就伸出臂膀，用大能的手行神迹奇事，以伟大而可畏的作为带领我们离开埃及。 9祂带领我们来到这个地方，把这奶蜜之乡赐给我们。 10耶和华啊，现在我们从你赐给我们的土地上带来初熟的物产。’你们要把篮子放在你们的上帝耶和华面前，敬拜祂。 11你们和利未人以及住在你们中间的外族人，都要因你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们和你们家人的美物而欢喜快乐。
十一奉献年
12“每逢第三年是十一奉献年。你们应当把自己的十一奉献拿出来分给利未人、寄居者和孤儿寡妇，使他们在你们居住的城邑吃饱喝足。 13然后，你们要在你们的上帝耶和华面前宣告，‘我们已经按照你的诫命，从我们家里拿出圣物分给利未人、寄居者和孤儿寡妇。我们没有触犯也没有忘记你的任何诫命。 14这些圣物，我们守丧期间没有吃过，不洁净时没有拿过，也没有献给死人。我们听从你——我们的上帝耶和华，遵行你的一切吩咐。 15求你从天上圣洁的居所垂看，赐福给你的以色列子民和你赐给我们的土地——你向我们祖先起誓应许的奶蜜之乡。’
16“你们的上帝耶和华今天吩咐你们遵守这些律例和典章，你们要全心全意地谨慎遵守。 17你们今天已经宣称耶和华是你们的上帝，答应要听从祂，行祂的道，遵守祂的一切律例、诫命和典章。 18耶和华今天已经照祂的应许宣称你们是祂的子民，是祂宝贵的产业。因此，你们要遵守祂的一切诫命， 19这样祂必使你们备受赞誉和尊崇，超越祂所造的万国，并照着祂的应许使你们做属于祂的圣洁子民。”
1And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess 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. 4And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5And 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: 6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 8And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10And 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: 11And 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 that is among you.
12¶ 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; 13Then 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: 14I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
16¶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
