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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Deuteronomy 26:4

"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - First Fruits;   Patriotism;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Generosity;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - First Fruits, the;   Priests;   Theocracy, the, or Immediate Government by God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Hospitality;   Legalism;   Tithe, Tithing;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Firstfruits;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Pentecost, Feast of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Alms;   First-fruits;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Property Given to Religion;   Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   First-Fruits;   Prayer;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Basket;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bikkurim;   Pilgrimage;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Targum;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
King James Version
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.
Lexham English Bible
Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before the altar of Yahweh your God.
English Standard Version
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
New Century Version
The priest will take your basket and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
New English Translation
The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
Amplified Bible
"Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, & set it downe before the altar of the Lord thy God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
The priest will take the basket and set it in front of the Lord 's altar.
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Then the priest will take the basket from you. He will put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
And the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
"The priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and place it before the altar of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the prest shal take the maunde out of thine hande, and set it downe before the altare of the LORDE thy God.
American Standard Version
And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
Bible in Basic English
Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the priest shall take the basket out of thyne hande, and set it downe before the aulter of the Lorde thy God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
King James Version (1611)
And the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it downe before the Altar of the Lord thy God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hands, and shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
English Revised Version
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the preest schal take the panyere of thin hond, and schal sette bifor the auter of thi Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
Update Bible Version
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
World English Bible
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
"Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
Then the religious leader will take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the priest take the basket out of thy hand, - and set it down before the altar of Yahweh thy God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
Revised Standard Version
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

1 "Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name. 3 "You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare this day to the LORD my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' 4 "Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.5 "You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. 6 'And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us. 7 'Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression; 8 and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders; 9 and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 'Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground which You, O LORD have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

before the: Matthew 5:23, Matthew 5:24, Matthew 23:19, Hebrews 13:10-12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:10 - And thou

Cross-References

Genesis 13:16
"I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 26:2
The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.
Genesis 26:3
"Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4
"I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Genesis 26:8
It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:17
And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.
Genesis 26:18
Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,.... To wave it, as Jarchi says, putting his hand under the hand of the owner, and so waving it; and this being waved to and fro towards the several corners of the earth, was an acknowledgment of the Lord being the proprietor of it:

and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God; that it might have some appearance of a sacrifice, and be a fit emblem of the spiritual sacrifice of praise, which is accepted upon the altar Christ, which sanctifies every gift.


 
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