²then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there. ³And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, ‘I declare today^b to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors^c to give to us.’ ⁴Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before^d the altar of Yahweh your God. ⁵And you shall declare^e and you shall say before^f your God, ‘My ancestor^g was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien few in number,^h and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. ⁶And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor. ⁷And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors,ⁱ and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. ⁸And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders. ⁹And he brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰And now, look, I am bringing^j the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,’ and you shall place it before^k Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down before^l Yahweh your God. ¹¹And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who is in your midst.

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Footnotes

bLiterally “the day”
cOr “fathers”
dLiterally “to the face of”
eLiterally “answer”
fLiterally “to the face of”
gOr “father”
hLiterally “in people only a few”
iOr “fathers”
jHebrew “I bring”
kLiterally “to the face of”
lLiterally “to the face of”