¹“And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, ²that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lᴏʀᴅ your God chooses to make His name abide. ³And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lᴏʀᴅ your God that I have come to the country which the Lᴏʀᴅ swore to our fathers to give us.’ ⁴Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God. ⁵And you shall answer and say before the Lᴏʀᴅ your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. ⁶But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. ⁷Then we cried out to the Lᴏʀᴅ God of our fathers, and the Lᴏʀᴅ heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. ⁸So the Lᴏʀᴅ brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. ⁹He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey”; ¹⁰and now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lᴏʀᴅ, have given me.’ Then you shall set it before the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, and worship before the Lᴏʀᴅ your God. ¹¹So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. ¹²“When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, ¹³then you shall say before the Lᴏʀᴅ your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them. ¹⁴I have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor given any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lᴏʀᴅ my God, and have done according to all that You have commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” ‘ ¹⁶“This day the Lᴏʀᴅ your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have proclaimed the Lᴏʀᴅ to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. ¹⁸Also today the Lᴏʀᴅ has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, ¹⁹and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, just as He has spoken.”

¹Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! ²For His merciful kindness is great toward us, And the truth of the Lᴏʀᴅ endures forever. Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ!

¹Oh, give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. ²Let Israel now say, “His mercy endures forever.” ³Let the house of Aaron now say, “His mercy endures forever.” ⁴Let those who fear the Lᴏʀᴅ now say, “His mercy endures forever.” ⁵I called on the Lᴏʀᴅ in distress; The Lᴏʀᴅ answered me and set me in a broad place. ⁶The Lᴏʀᴅ is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? ⁷The Lᴏʀᴅ is for me among those who help me; Therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me. ⁸It is better to trust in the Lᴏʀᴅ Than to put confidence in man. ⁹It is better to trust in the Lᴏʀᴅ Than to put confidence in princes. ¹⁰All nations surrounded me, But in the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ I will destroy them. ¹¹They surrounded me, Yes, they surrounded me; But in the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ I will destroy them. ¹²They surrounded me like bees; They were quenched like a fire of thorns; For in the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ I will destroy them. ¹³You pushed me violently, that I might fall, But the Lᴏʀᴅ helped me. ¹⁴The Lᴏʀᴅ is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation. ¹⁵The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the Lᴏʀᴅ does valiantly. ¹⁶The right hand of the Lᴏʀᴅ is exalted; The right hand of the Lᴏʀᴅ does valiantly. ¹⁷I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹⁸The Lᴏʀᴅ has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death. ¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the Lᴏʀᴅ. ²⁰This is the gate of the Lᴏʀᴅ, Through which the righteous shall enter. ²¹I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation. ²²The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. ²³This was the Lᴏʀᴅ’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. ²⁴This is the day the Lᴏʀᴅ has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. ²⁵Save now, I pray, O Lᴏʀᴅ; O Lᴏʀᴅ, I pray, send now prosperity. ²⁶Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ! We have blessed you from the house of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ²⁷God is the Lᴏʀᴅ, And He has given us light; Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. ²⁸You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. ²⁹Oh, give thanks to the Lᴏʀᴅ, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

¹Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lᴏʀᴅ been revealed? ²For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. ³He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. ⁴Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. ⁵But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lᴏʀᴅ has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. ⁷He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. ⁸He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. ⁹And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. ¹⁰Yet it pleased the Lᴏʀᴅ to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lᴏʀᴅ shall prosper in His hand. ¹¹He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. ¹²Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

¹The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: ²Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. ³Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. ⁴Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. ⁵Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, ⁶and Jesse begot David the king.David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. ⁷Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa. ⁸Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah. ⁹Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah. ¹⁰Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah. ¹¹Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon. ¹²And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. ¹³Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. ¹⁴Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. ¹⁵Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. ¹⁶And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. ¹⁷So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations. ¹⁸Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. ²⁰But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. ²¹And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” ²²So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: ²³“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” ²⁴Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, ²⁵and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.