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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 26

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Chapter 26 of Deuteronomy—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “And it must occur that when at last you enter into the land that Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you have taken possession of it and dwelt in it,1
  2. you must also take some of the firstfruits2 of all the fruitage of the soil, which you will bring in from the land of yours that Jehovah your God is giving you, and you must put them in a basket and go to the place that Jehovah[a] your God will choose to have his name reside there.3
  3. And you must come to the priest4 who will be acting in those days and say to him, ‘I must report today to Jehovah your[b] God that I have come into the land that Jehovah swore to our forefathers to give to us.’5
  4. ¶ “And the priest must take the basket out of your hand and deposit it before the altar of Jehovah your God.
  5. And you must answer and say before Jehovah your God, ‘My father was a perishing Syrian;[c]6 and he proceeded to go down to Egypt7 and to reside there as an alien with very few in number;8 but there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.9
  6. And the Egyptians went treating us badly and afflicting us and putting hard slavery upon us.10
  7. And we began to cry out to Jehovah[d] the God of our forefathers,11 and Jehovah proceeded to hear our voice12 and to look on our affliction and our trouble and our oppression.13
  8. Finally Jehovah[e] brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand14 and an outstretched arm15 and with great fearsomeness16 and with signs and miracles.17
  9. Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.18
  10. And now here I have brought the firstfruits of the fruitage of the ground that Jehovah has given me.’19
    ¶ “You must also deposit it before Jehovah your God and bow down before Jehovah your God.20
  11. And you must rejoice21 over all the good that Jehovah your God has given you and your household, you and the Levite and the alien resident who is in your midst.22
  12. ¶ “When you finish with tithing23 the entire tenth of your produce in the third year,24 the year of the tenth, you must also give it[f] to the Levite, the alien resident, the fatherless boy and the widow, and they must eat it within your gates and satisfy themselves.25
  13. And you must say before Jehovah your God, ‘I have cleared away what is holy from the house and I have also given it to the Levite and the alien resident, the fatherless boy and the widow,26 in accord with all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not overstepped your commandments, nor have I forgotten.27
  14. I have not eaten of it during my mourning,[g] nor have I removed any of it while unclean, nor have I given any of it for anyone dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah[h] my God. I have done in accord with all that you have commanded me.
  15. Do look down from your holy dwelling,28 the heavens, and bless your people Israel29 and the soil that you have given us, just as you swore to our forefathers,30 the land flowing with milk and honey.’31
  16. ¶ “This day Jehovah your God is commanding you to carry out these regulations and judicial decisions;32 and you must observe and carry them out with all your heart33 and all your soul.34
  17. Jehovah you have induced to say today that he will become your God while you walk in his ways and observe his regulations35 and his commandments36 and his judicial decisions37 and listen to his voice.38
  18. As for Jehovah, he has induced you to say today that you will become his people, a special property,39 just as he has promised you,40 and that you will observe all his commandments,
  19. and that he will put you high above all the other nations that he has made,41 resulting in praise and reputation and beauty, while you prove yourself a people holy to Jehovah your God,42 just as he has promised.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ See App 1C §1.
  2. ^ “Your,” MSamSyVg; LXX, “my.”
  3. ^ Lit., “My father was a perishing Aramaean,” MSam; Sy, “My father was led to Aram”; LXX, “My father cast off Syria.”
  4. ^ See App 1C §1.
  5. ^ See App 1C §1.
  6. ^ “The year of the tenth, you must also give it,” MSamSyVg; LXX, “you will give the second tenth.”
  7. ^ Or, “of it in my state of taboo.”
  8. ^ See App 1C §1.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 6:1; 18:9
  2. ^ Ex 23:19; Le 23:10; Nu 18:12; 2Ch 31:5; Ne 10:35; Pr 3:9
  3. ^ De 12:5; 2Ch 6:6
  4. ^ Nu 18:28
  5. ^ Ge 17:8; 26:3; Ps 105:11; Heb 6:13
  6. ^ Ge 28:5; 31:41, 42; Ho 12:12
  7. ^ Ge 46:3; Ac 7:15
  8. ^ Ge 46:27; De 7:7
  9. ^ Ex 1:7; De 10:22; Ps 105:24
  10. ^ Ex 1:11; De 4:20
  11. ^ Ex 3:9; Ps 116:1
  12. ^ Ps 102:20; Is 59:1; 1Jo 5:15
  13. ^ Ex 4:31; Ac 7:34
  14. ^ Ex 13:3; De 6:21
  15. ^ Ex 6:6; De 4:34
  16. ^ Ex 15:16; Je 32:21
  17. ^ Ex 7:3
  18. ^ Ex 3:8; De 8:8; Eze 20:6
  19. ^ De 26:2
  20. ^ Ps 95:6
  21. ^ De 12:7; Ps 32:11; 63:5; 68:3; Pp 4:4
  22. ^ De 16:14
  23. ^ De 12:6; 14:22
  24. ^ De 14:28
  25. ^ De 14:29; Pr 14:21; 1Jo 3:17
  26. ^ Jm 1:27
  27. ^ Ps 119:141; Pr 3:1; Ac 24:16
  28. ^ Ps 102:19; Is 40:22; 63:15
  29. ^ Ex 23:25; Ps 28:9; 115:12
  30. ^ Ge 15:18; 26:3; Heb 6:13
  31. ^ De 8:8
  32. ^ De 4:1; 6:1; 11:1
  33. ^ De 6:6; Ps 78:7; 119:34; 1Jo 5:3
  34. ^ De 13:3
  35. ^ Le 10:11; 26:46; Ps 119:5
  36. ^ De 13:18; Ec 12:13
  37. ^ Le 19:37; Ps 19:9
  38. ^ De 15:5
  39. ^ Ex 19:5; De 14:2; Ps 135:4
  40. ^ De 29:13
  41. ^ De 4:8; 28:1; Ps 148:14
  42. ^ De 7:6; 28:9

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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