Deuteronômio 26

1 It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. 3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, "I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us." 4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar. 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "My father*26:5 or, forefather was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. 6 The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. 7 Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders; 9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me." You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God. 11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

12 When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled. 13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, "I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey."

16 Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice. 18 Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments. 19 He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

Ngā Hua Mātāmua

1 Ā tēnei ake, ā te wā e tae ai koe ki te whenua e hōmai e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe hei kāinga tūturu, ā, ka riro a reira i a koe, ā, ka noho koe ki reira; 2 nā, ka tango koe i ētahi o ngā mea mātāmua o ngā hua katoa o te whenua, e mauria mai e koe i tōu oneone, ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe; ā, me whawhao e koe ki te kete, ka haere ai ki te wāhi e whiriwhiri ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua, kia waiho tōna ingoa ki reira. 3 Nā, ka haere koe ki te tohunga e minita ana i aua rā, ka mea ki a ia, "Tēnei ahau te kōrero nui nei i tēnei rā ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, kua tae mai ahau ki te whenua i oati ai a Ihowā ki ō tātou mātua kia hōmai ki a tātou." 4 Nā, ka tango te tohunga i te kete i tōu ringa, ka whakatakoto hoki ki mua o te āta a Ihowā, a tōu Atua. 5 Ko reira koe oho atu ai, mea ai ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, "Ko tōku matua he Hīriani, i ora noa i te mate; ā, haere ana ia ki raro, ki Īhipa, ā, noho ana i reira, he hunga torutoru; nā, meinga ana ia hei iwi nui i reira, he kaha, he tini. 6 Nā, tūkinotia ana mātou e ngā Īhipiana, whakawhiua ana mātou, ā, he kino tā rātou whakamahinga i a mātou; 7 ā, ka tangi mātou ki a Ihowā, ki te Atua o ō mātou mātua, nā, whakarongo mai ana a Ihowā ki tō mātou reo, titiro mai ana ki tō mātou whakawhiunga, ki tō mātou whakamahinga, ki tō mātou tūkinotanga. 8 Nā, whakaputaina mai ana mātou e Ihowā i Īhipa ki te ringa kaha, ki te tākakau mārō tonu, me te whakamataku nui, me ngā tohu, me ngā merekara; 9 ā, kawea mai ana mātou e ia ki tēnei wāhi, ā, hōmai ana ki a mātou tēnei whenua, he whenua e rerengia ana e te waiū, e te honi. 10 Nā, titiro, kua kawea mai nei e ahau ngā hua mātāmua o te whenua i hōmai nei e koe, e Ihowā, ki ahau." Kātahi koe ka whakatakoto atu ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua, me te koropiko anō ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua; 11 ka koa hoki ki ngā mea pai katoa i hōmai e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koutou ko tōu whare, a koe, me te Rīwaiti me te manene i roto i a koe.

12 Ka pae ngā whakatekau katoa o āu hua i te toru o ngā tau, i te tau whakatekau, me hoatu e koe ki te Rīwaiti, ki te manene, ki te pani, ki te pouaru, kia kainga i roto i ōu kūwaha, ā, ka mākona; 13 ā, ka mea koe ki te aroaro o Ihowā, o tōu Atua: "Kua poto mai i ahau i roto i tōku whare ngā mea tapu, kua hoatu anō e ahau ki te Rīwaiti, ki te manene, ki te pani, ki te pouaru, kua rite i ahau āu whakahau katoa i whakahau ai koe ki ahau; kāhore ahau i whakapaheke i tētahi o āu whakahau, kāhore anō i wareware. 14 Kīhai i kainga e ahau tētahi wāhi i ahau e noho tauā ana; kīhai i tangohia e ahau tētahi wāhi mō te poke, kīhai anō hoki i hoatu hei mea tūpāpaku; i whakarongo ahau ki te reo o Ihowā, o tōku Atua, rite tonu āku mahi ki ngā mea katoa i whakahaua e koe ki ahau. 15 Titiro iho i tōu nohoanga tapu, i te rangi, manaakitia hoki tāu iwi, a Īharaira, me te oneone i hōmai nei e koe ki a mātou, pērā me tāu i oati ai ki ō mātou mātua, he whenua e rerengia ana e te waiū e te honi."

He Iwi Tapu mā Ihowā

16 Nō tēnei rā a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i whakahau ai i a koe, kia mahia ēnei tikanga, me ēnei whakaritenga; nā, puritia e koe, mahia, e tōu ngākau katoa, e tōu wairua katoa. 17 Kua whakaae koe i tēnei rā ki a Ihowā hei Atua mōu, kia haere i āna huarahi, kia whakaritea hoki āna tikanga, me āna whakahau, me āna whakaritenga, kia rongo anō hoki ki tōna reo. 18 Ā, kua whakaae hoki a Ihowā ki a koe i tēnei rā hei iwi māna, motuhake rawa hei pērā me tāna i kōrero ai ki a koe, hei pupuri hoki i āna whakahau katoa; 19 hei mea kia teitei ake koe i ngā iwi katoa i hangā e ia, te whakamoemiti, te ingoa, te korōria; kia waiho hoki koe hei iwi tapu mā Ihowā, mā tōu Atua, hei pērā me tāna i kōrero ai.