3And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, 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.
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Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
And having an high priest over the house of God;
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. A good work ordered to be done, and that is the presenting of a basket of their first-fruits to God every year, Deut. 26:1 , 2 . Besides the sheaf of first-fruits , which was offered for the whole land, on the morrow after the passover (Lev. 23:10), every man was to bring for himself a basket of first-fruits at the feast of pentecost, when the harvest was ended, which is therefore call…
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