Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 200
The Five Books of Moses
011 your march, as you came from the Mitzoraim. How he met you in the road and assailed your rear,-all the sick who were following you, when you were weary, and harassed you,——·and he did not regard the ambassadors,—therefore when your EVER-Lxvmc Gon has given you peace from all your enemies around, in the country that your EVER- uvmo Goo has given you to divide into estates, wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the skies. Do not forget. 26 When you come into the country which your Evan-Lxvmo Gon. has given you to divide, and possess, and
2 live in, you shall take the f1rst fruit of all the produce of the ground that comes from the land which your Even-mvmc Gon gives you, and put it in a basket and carry to the place where the Evua-Lrvmc, your Goo, chooses to {ix His Name, and go to the priest who may be in those days, and say to him; I have to·day brought to the pre-
sence ofthe EVER-Lxvmo, your Gon, some of what the land which the EVER-LIVING promised to our fathers to give to us, has produced} Then the Priest shall take the
basket from your hand, and set it before the altar of your EvER—L1v1NG Gon. You shall then kneel and say in the presence of your EvER—Lxv1NG Gon; ‘My ancestor was a wandering
Aramite and he went down to the Mitzeraim, as a foreigner, with a few persons ; but he became there a great, strong and numerous nation. Then the Mitzerites wronged us, and oppressed us, and imposed a cruel slavery upon us; but we cried to the Eveasrivmc Gon of our fathers, and the EvER»L1v1NG heard our voice, and looked upon our amiction, and our sorrow, and our oppression: and the Even-uvrmc brought us out from among the Mitzeraim with a. strong hand, and a directing arm, and with great signs and wonders, and revelations, and conducted us to this place, and gave us this country; a land flowing with milk and honey.
So now, see! I have brought some produce of the ground which the EVER—LIv1NG has given to me, and have placed it before your EVER- Lxvmo Gon} Then you shall bow down before
your Evan-Lrvmc Goo, and enjoy yourself with all the good things that your EvER·Liv1NG Gov has given you, and your family;-yourself, and the Levite,and the stranger who is amongst you. Then afterwards fully tithe the
whole thatis tithable of your produce in the third year. You shall tithe yearly, and give to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they shall be fed in your villages, and be satished. You shall also declare before your EVER-Lxvmo Gon; ‘ I have eaten the consecrated part
with my family, and I have also given of it to the Levite, and to the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commands which You havecommanded me. I have not passed over from Your commands, and I have not evaded. I have not used any part in self- indulgence; I have not consumed any part in depravity; I have not given any part to the dead; I have listened to the voice of the EVER- LIVING Gon; I have done all that He has commanded me. Look down from Your Holy Dwelling, from Heaven, and bless Your People of Israel, and the land that You have given to us, as You promised to our fathers,-·—the land flowing with milk and honey! This very day your Evan-Lrvmo
Gon commands you to practise these institutions, and these decrees, and to preserve and do them, with all your heart, and with all your soul. 200 IO
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