Deuteronomy 26:13

_THEN THOU SHALT SAY BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD, I HAVE BROUGHT AWAY THE HALLOWED THINGS OUT OF MINE HOUSE, AND ALSO HAVE GIVEN THEM UNTO THE LEVITE, AND UNTO THE STRANGER, TO THE FATHERLESS, AND TO THE WIDOW, ACCORDING TO ALL THY COMMANDMENTS WHICH THOU HAST COMMANDED ME: I HAVE NOT TRANSGRESSED THY COMMANDMENTS, NEITHER HAVE I FORGOTTEN THEM:_ Thou shalt say before the Lord thy God. This was a solemn and conscientious declaration that nothing which should be devoted to the divine service had been secretly reserved for personal use....

12-15 How should the earth yield its increase, or, if it does, what comfort can we take in it, unless therewith our God gives us his blessing? All this represented the covenant relation between a reconciled God and every true believer, and the privileges and duties belonging to it. We must be watchful, and show that according to the covenant of grace in Christ Jesus, the Lord is our God, and we are his people, waiting in his appointed way for the performance of his gracious promises....

EXPOSITION THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER AT THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES. As Moses began his exposition of the laws and rights instituted for Israel by a reference to the sanctuary as the place which the Lord should choose, and the place where religious service was to be rendered (Deuteronomy 12:1.), so here he follows up his address by a reference to the same. Of the gifts which had to be presented at the sanctuary there were two specially connected with the social and domestic life of the people, viz. the firstfruits and the second tithe. To these, by a natural transition from the preceding discourse—occupied as that is with injunctions regarding their social and domestic relations—Mos

THEN THOU SHALT SAY BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD,.... Make the following declaration as in his presence; for this was not made in the tabernacle or temple at, Jerusalem, since the tithe was to be eaten with the poor in the gates of the owner, as in Deuteronomy 26:12: I HAVE BROUGHT AWAY THE HALLOWED THINGS OUT OF [MINE] HOUSE: which Aben Ezra and Onkelos interpret of the tithe; but it seems, besides that, to take in everything devoted to all holy uses, be they what they will, which were at this time to be separated from a man's own common goods, and applied to the purposes for which they were designed and devoted, and particularly what was to be given to the poor: AND ALSO HAVE, GIVEN THEM UNTO THE LEVITE, AND UNTO THE STRANGER, TO THE FATHERLESS, AND TO THE WIDOW, ACCORDING TO ALL THY COMMANDMENTS WHICH THOU HAST COMMANDED ME; giving to each accor

22. FIRSTFRUITS AND PRAYER CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The basket of first-fruits, confession and rejoicing (Deuteronomy 26:1)_ 2. Obedience yielded and prayer (Deuteronomy 26:12) 3. Jehovah acknowledges His people (Deuteronomy 26:16) The possession of the land is anticipated and a most beautiful ceremony is appointed for confession and worship in the place the Lord chose to place His Name there. The first of all the fruit of the land was to be gathered and put in a basket. This basket was presented unto the priest with the following words: “I profess 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

The liturgical formula to be used when the triennial charity tithe (the Deuteronomic poor rate) is offered in the various localities (Deuteronomy 14:28 f.); for the tithes of the first and second year, see Deuteronomy 12:6; Deuteronomy 14:22 f.* Deuteronomy 26:14. The offerer must declare that this triennial tithe was free from pollution through contact with a mourner (Hosea 9:4) or with an unclean person (Leviticus 22:1 f.), or through

HALLOWED. holy. TRANSGRESSED. passed over. Hebrew. _'abar,_...

IV. Fourth Division of the Laws. Ideals of Ritual Procedure with Proper Prayers, Deuteronomy 26:1-15 The Presentation of Firstfruits (Deuteronomy 26:1-11) and the Distribution of Tithes (Deuteronomy 26:12-15). Throughout in the style of D (with particular affinity to the Law of Tithes, Deuteronomy 14:22-29) and in the Sg. address; for additions, see below. These beautiful forms of service express fully D's ideals of worship that it shall be national, at the nation's one sanctuary, but performed by the separate families with their local dependents; that it shall be historica

(3) TITHES OF THE THIRD YEAR (Deuteronomy 26:12-15) 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled. 13 And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them: 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that thou has comma

THE PRESENTATION OF FIRSTERUITS AND OF TITHES 1-11. Presentation of the Firstfruits, as a Thankoffering for the mercy of God in delivering the nation from Egypt and in giving them a good land and fruitful seasons....