Deuteronomy 26:1–11: First Fruits as Confession
In Deuteronomy 26:1–11 the worshiper brings a basket of first fruits and recites a story that starts with a perishing ancestor and ends in a land flowing with milk and honey. The offering is a confession before it is a transaction.
Deuteronomy 26:14: Food for the Dead Forbidden
Deuteronomy 26:14 shows that Israel's law treated food given for the dead as a misuse of property set apart for God and the poor, not as an act of devotion. The verse sits inside a confession of wholehearted obedience, not a funeral rite.