All these things didn’t come\par from me and my people!\par All these things come from you.\par We are only giving back to you\par things that came from you.\par
May the people in all the faraway countries\par remember the Lord and come back to him!\par May the people in all the foreign countries\par worship the Lord.\par
Strong, healthy people have eaten\par and bowed down before God.\par In fact, all people,\par those who will die\par and those who are already dead,\par will bow down before God!\par
All people will come to worship me on every worship day; they will come every Sabbath {\cf2\super [489]} and every first day of the month. {\cf2\super [490]}
So do you think that you can judge those other people? You are wrong. You too are guilty of sin. You judge those people, but you do the same bad things they do. So when you judge them, you are really judging yourself guilty.
You must give the priests the first part of your harvest. You must give them the first part of your grain, your new wine, and your oil. You must give the Levites [114] the first wool cut from your sheep.
Today you have said that the Lord is your God. You have promised to live the way he wants. You promised to follow his teachings, and to obey his laws and commands. You said you will do everything he tells you to do.
You will gather the crops that grow in the land the Lord is giving you. You must take the first crops and put them in baskets. Then take that first part of your harvest to the place the Lord your God chooses to be his special house.
Remember the Lord your God. Remember that he is the One who gives you power to do those things! Why does the Lord do this? Because he wants to keep the Agreement that he made with your ancestors [55] —just like he is doing today!
But the angel said to me, “Don’t \{worship me\}! I am a servant like you and your brothers the prophets. {\cf2\super [170]} I am a servant like all the people who obey the words in this book. You should worship God!”