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Deuteronomy 26:4

Verse 4 of 19. The 26th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.

1It shall be, when you have come in to the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,

2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD 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 the LORD your God, that I have come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”

4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God’s altar.

5You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was 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.

7Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. The LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

8The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

Read Deuteronomy 26

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.