申命记 26:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你和利未人，以及住在你們中間的外族人，都要因耶和華你的　神賜給你和你的家的一切好處而歡樂。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 和 利 未 人 ， 并 在 你 们 中 间 寄 居 的 ， 要 因 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 所 赐 你 和 你 家 的 一 切 福 分 欢 乐 。

Contextual Overview

¹ When you go into the land the Lord your God is giving you as your own, to take it over and live in it, ² you must take some of the first harvest of crops that grow from the land the Lord your God is giving you. Put the food in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to be worshiped. ³ Say to the priest on duty at that time, "Today I declare before the Lord your God that I have come into the land the Lord promised our ancestors that he would give us." ⁴ The priest will take your basket and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: "My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there. ⁶ But the Egyptians were cruel to us, making us suffer and work very hard. ⁷ So we prayed to the Lord , the God of our ancestors, and he heard us. When he saw our trouble, hard work, and suffering, ⁸ the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his great power and strength, using great terrors, signs, and miracles. ⁹ Then he brought us to this place and gave us this fertile land. ¹⁰ Now I bring part of the first harvest from this land that you, Lord , have given me." Place the basket before the Lord your God and bow down before him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rejoice: Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 12:18, Deuteronomy 16:11, Deuteronomy 28:47, Psalms 63:3-5, Psalms 100:1, Psalms 100:2, Isaiah 65:14, Zechariah 9:17, Acts 2:46, Acts 2:47, Philippians 4:4, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:18

the Levite: 1 Corinthians 9:11

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:27 - General Deuteronomy 14:26 - eat Deuteronomy 16:14 - General Deuteronomy 27:7 - rejoice 2 Chronicles 15:15 - rejoiced Nehemiah 8:10 - send Ecclesiastes 3:22 - nothing Joel 2:26 - and praise

Cross-References

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.

Psalms 105:15
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."

Proverbs 6:29
The same is true if you have sexual relations with another man's wife. Anyone who does so will be punished.

Zechariah 2:8
This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "After he has honored me and sent me against the nations who took your possessions—because whoever touches you hurts what is precious to me—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing],.... In all the blessings of goodness and mercies of life, which God in his kind providence had favoured them with:

which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house; to them and their families, by which they were comfortably provided for:

thou and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you; by which it seems that not only a basket of firstfruits was brought and presented to the Lord, which is the perquisite of the priest, but there were others also brought, or bought with their money at Jerusalem, and a sort of a kept, which the Levite, and stranger or proselyte, of along with the owner; see Deuteronomy 12:11; though Jarchi understands it of the Levite and stranger being obliged to bring the firstfruits: the Levite, he says, is bound to the firstfruits of the plants in the midst of his cities, though he had no part in the division of the land; and the same writer says, the stranger brings the firstfruits, but does not proclaim, because he cannot say, "which he sware to our fathers", Deuteronomy 26:3; but it is said f, if his mother was an Israelitess he might proclaim; yea, Maimonides g says, on account of what is said of Abraham, Genesis 17:5; who is the father of the whole world; see Romans 4:10; because mention is made of rejoicing; hence it is concluded, as Jarchi says, that the proclamation of the firstfruits was only made in the time of joy, from Pentecost unto the feast that a man gathers in his increase, and his fruits, and his wine, and his oil; though from that feast and onward he may bring, but not proclaim; to the same purpose, says the Misnah h, from Pentecost to the feast of tabernacles a man may bring the firstfruits, and proclaim; and even from the feast of tabernacles to the dedication of the temple, he may bring, but not proclaim; the reason given in Siphri i is, because proclamation is only to be performed in time of joy--and the joy of the year is finished at the end of the feast of tabernacles, as in

Leviticus 23:40.

f Misn. Biccurim, c. 1. sect. 4. g Maimon. Hilchot Biccurim, c. 4. sect. 3. h Ut supra, (f) sect. 6. i Apud Maimon. Hilchot Biccurim, c. 4. sect. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 26:11. Thou shalt rejoice — God intends that his followers shall be happy; that they shall eat their bread with gladness and singleness of heart, praising him. Those who eat their meat grudgingly, under the pretence of their unworthiness, &c., profane God's bounties and shall have no thanks for their voluntary humility.

Thou, and the Levite, and the stranger — They were to take care to share God's bounties among all those who were dependent on them. The Levite has no inheritance, let him rejoice with thee. The stranger has no home, let him feel thee to be his friend and his father.