1 When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, |
2 take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name |
3 and say to the priest in office at the time, "I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land the LORD swore to our forefathers to give us." |
4 The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God. |
5 Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. |
6 But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor. |
7 Then we cried out to the LORD , the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. |
8 So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and wonders. |
9 He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey; |
10 and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O LORD , have given me." Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him. |
11 And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household. |
