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Deuteronomy 26:3

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26:3You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “I declare today to the Lord your4 God that I have come into the land that the Lord5 promised6 to our ancestors7 to give us.”

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  1. 4 For the reading “your God,” certain have “my God,” a contextually superior rendition followed by some English versions (e.g., , , ). Perhaps the text reflects dittography of the kaf (ך) at the end of the word with the following preposition כִּי (ki).
  2. 5 The adds “your God” to complete the usual formula.
  3. 6 Heb “swore on oath.”
  4. 7 Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 7, 15).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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 ancestors to give us.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have entered the land the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.’

NLTNew Living Translation

Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘With this gift I acknowledge to the Lord your God that I have entered the land he swore to our ancestors he would give us.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, ‘I declare today to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors to give to us.’

KJV 1900King James Version

And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.