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Deuteronomy 26:4
Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 26:4 · Bible in Basic English
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Deuteronomy 26:4 in other translations
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God’s altar.
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In context
1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;
2 You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name.
3 And you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us.
4 Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
5 And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:
7 And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:
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