“The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.”
Deuteronomy 26:4 (WEB)
Context Reading
2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. 3You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.” 4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar. 5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My fatherwas a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation. 6The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.