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Positive Commandment #272 of 613

Read the portion of Scripture pertaining to the presentation of first fruits

Commandment #272a positive obligation from Deuteronomy 26:5, classified under Terumah and Tithes in the 613 commandments of the Torah.

Scripture

"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Hebrew

ה וְעָנִיתָ וְאָמַרְתָּ לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, אֲרַמִּי אֹבֵד אָבִי, וַיֵּרֶד מִצְרַיְמָה, וַיָּגָר שָׁם בִּמְתֵי מְעָט; וַיְהִי-שָׁם, לְגוֹי גָּדוֹל עָצוּם וָרָב.

Greek (Septuagint)

5 καὶ ἀποκριθήσῃ καὶ ἐρεῖς ἔναντι κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου Συρίαν ἀπέβαλεν ὁ πατήρ μου καὶ κατέβη εἰς Αἴγυπτον καὶ παρῴκησεν ἐκεῖ ἐν ἀριθμῷ βραχεῖ καὶ ἐγένετο ἐκεῖ εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ πλῆθος πολὺ καὶ μέγα·

Classification

Type
Positive (Thou Shalt)
Book
deuteronomy
Chapter
26

Scholarly References

Parashah
Ki Tavo
Mishneh Torah
SeedsFirst Fruits and Other Priestly Gifts Outside the Temple

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