Chapter .xxvi.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee to inherit and hast enjoyed it and dwellest therein: take of
the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou hast brought
in out of the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee and put it in
a maund and go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose
to make his name dwell there. And thou shalt come unto the priest
that shall be in those days and say unto him: I knowledge 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. And the priest shall
take the maund out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar
of the LORD thy God. And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD
thy God: The Sirians would have destroyed my father, and he went
down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there
unto a nation great, mighty and full of people. And the Egyptians
vexed us and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage. And we
cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our
voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression. And the
LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched
out arm and with great terribleness and with signs and wonders.
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