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Summary
Deuteronomy 26:1-11

26:1. When you have come into the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, and have conquered it, and dwell in it:

26:2. You shall take the first of all your fruits, and put them in a basket, and shall go to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, that His name may be invocated there:

26:3. You shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him: I profess this day before the Lord your God, that I am come into the land, for which He swore to our fathers, that He would give it us.

26:4. The priest taking the basket at your hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord your God:



26:5. and you shall speak thus in the sight of the Lord your God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.



The Syrian. . .Laban. See Gen. 27.

26:6. The Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens:

26:7. and we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labor, and distress:

26:8. and brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders:

26:9. and brought us into this place, and gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.

'''26:10. Therefore now, I offer the first fruits of the land which the Lord has given me. You shall leave them in the sight of the Lord your God, adoring the Lord your God.'''

26:11. You shall feast in all the good things which the Lord your God has given you, and your house, you and the Levite, and the stranger that is with you.

The story of a thanksgiving day, as in the offering of first fruits in Deuteronomy 26:1-11, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company between 1896 and 1913 Date: before 1914