Deuteronomy
Chapter 26
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1And it shall be, when you come into the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and live in it,
2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the soil that you bring in from your land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God chooses to make his name dwell.
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Tene is a basket.
3You shall come to the priest who will be in those days and say to him, I declare today to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God that I have come into the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. swore to our fathers to give us.
4The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
5You shall answer and say before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, My father was a perishing Aramean. He went down to Egypt and sojourned there with a few people, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and many.
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Arami oved avi is printed as my father was a perishing Aramean. Oved is the participle of perish, be lost. The same participle has been heard as wandering. The perish sense is printed. Bimtei me’at is with a few people.
6The Egyptians treated us badly and humbled us, and they set hard labor on us.
7We cried out to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of our fathers, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our pressure.
8God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with great dread, and with signs and with Striking signs that something is about to happen..
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Mora gadol is great dread. Otot are signs. Mofetim are portents.
9He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land oozing milk and honey.
10And now, Look, I have brought the first of the fruit of the soil that you, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., have given me. You shall set it down before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God and bow down before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
11You shall rejoice in all the good that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has given you and your house, you, and the Levite, and the A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in your midst.
12When you finish taking the tenth of all the tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you shall give it to the Levite, to the A person living in a land that is not their own., to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they shall eat in your gates and be full.
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Ma’aser is a tenth. The year is called the year of the tenth. A later tax name is not used.
13You shall say before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, I have cleared out the holy portion from the house, and I have also given it to the Levite, to the A person living in a land that is not their own., to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to your whole command that you commanded me. I have not crossed your commands, and I have not forgotten.
14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, and I have not cleared any of it out while unclean, and I have not given any of it for a dead person. I have listened to the voice of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. my God. I have done according to all that you commanded me.
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Be-oni is in mourning. Bi’arti be-tame is cleared out while unclean. La-met is for a dead person.
15Look down from your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless your people Israel and the soil that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land oozing milk and honey.
16This day God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is commanding you to do these Rules that are meant to last. and the rules. You shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your life.
17God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. you have declared today, that he is your God, and that you will walk in his ways and keep his Rules that are meant to last., his commands, and his rules, and listen to his voice.
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He’emarta is a rare form of the verb to say. It is printed as you have declared. The line does not name a later ceremony.
18And God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has declared you today to be his, a treasured people, as he spoke to you, and to keep all his commands,
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He’emirkha is the same rare verb, with Yahweh as the one who declares. Segullah is a treasured possession.
19and to set you high above all the nations that he has made, for praise, for a name, and for splendor, and for you to be a people set apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, as he has spoken.