When you enter the land that your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the your God will choose to establish its name. (3) You shall go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, “I acknowledge this day before your God that I have entered the land that God swore to our fathers to assign us.” The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of your God. (5) You shall then recite as follows before your God: “My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation. The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us. We cried to the God of our fathers, and God heard our plea and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression. God freed us from Egypt by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm and awesome power, and by signs and portents. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. Wherefore I now bring the first fruits of the soil which You, God, have given me.” You shall leave it before your God and bow low before your God. (11)And you shall enjoy, together with the Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that your God has bestowed upon you and your household.
The entire issue of Bikkurim is to remove from your thoughts the fact that this is your land and to instill the fact that it is the Land which God gives you. -Akeida
Through this mitzvah you prove that you are entering Eretz Yisrael not just to eat from her fruit and benefit from the good there, but to fulfill the Mitzvot. With the Bikkurim you show your dedication. After a farmer worked and labored for months to raise a crop, it would be natural for him to wish to taste the fruits of his labor. Yet, he brings his first and best fruits as an offering to God.
-MeOrah Shel Torah
"You shall take from the first" means that you shall take the Torah which is called "The first" - The beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10). In the next world, the first thing one is asked is if he had learned Torah. See to it, therefore, that you learn Torah in this world, so that you will have something to take with you into the next.
-Torah Gems
(13) you shall declare before your God: “I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments:
(16) God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul.
(12) After you have crossed the Jordan, the following shall stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessing for the people is spoken: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. (13) And for the curse, the following shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. (14) The Levites shall then proclaim in a loud voice to all the people of Israel: Cursed be anyone who makes a sculptured or molten image, abhorred by God, a craftsman’s handiwork, and sets it up in secret.—And all the people shall respond, Amen.
אָר֕וּר מַשְׁגֶּ֥ה עִוֵּ֖ר בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ {ס} אָר֗וּר מַטֶּ֛ה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט גֵּר־יָת֖וֹם
וְאַלְמָנָ֑ה וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ אָר֗וּר שֹׁכֵב֙ עִם־אֵ֣שֶׁת אָבִ֔יו כִּ֥י גִלָּ֖ה כְּנַ֣ף אָבִ֑יו וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ {ס} אָר֕וּר שֹׁכֵ֖ב עִם־כׇּל־בְּהֵמָ֑ה וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ {ס} אָר֗וּר שֹׁכֵב֙ עִם־אֲחֹת֔וֹ בַּת־אָבִ֖יו א֣וֹ בַת־אִמּ֑וֹ וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ {ס} אָר֕וּר שֹׁכֵ֖ב עִם־חֹֽתַנְתּ֑וֹ וְאָמַ֥ר כׇּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ {ס}
Deuteronomy 27:18-28:69
Cursed be he who misdirects a blind person on his way.—And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who subverts the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.—And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with his father’s wife, for he has removed his father’s garment.—And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with any beast.—And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he who lies with his sister, whether daughter of his father or of his mother.—And all the people shall say, Amen…
(1) Now, if you obey your God, to observe faithfully all of God's commandments which I enjoin upon you this day, your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
(11) God will give you abounding prosperity in the issue of your womb, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil in the land that God swore to your fathers to assign to you.
(15) But if you do not obey God to observe faithfully all God's commandments and laws which I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect.
(1) Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that God did before your very eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his courtiers and to his whole country: (2) the wondrous feats that you saw with your own eyes, those prodigious signs and marvels. (3) Yet to this day God has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. (4) I led you through the wilderness forty years; the clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet; (5) you had no bread to eat and no wine or other intoxicant to drink—that you might know that I am your God. (6) When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to engage us in battle, but we defeated them. (7) We took their land and gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as their heritage. (8) Therefore observe faithfully all the terms of this covenant, that you may succeed in all that you undertake.