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"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,

that you shall take some of ^(a)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 ^(b)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the Lord ^[a]my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.'

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

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘^(c)My father was a ^[b]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and ^[c]sojourned there, ^(d)few in number; but there he became a ^(e)great, mighty and populous nation.

And the ^(f)Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

Then ^(g)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;

^(h)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;

and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ⁽ⁱ⁾a land flowing with milk and honey.

Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground ^(j)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;

and you and ^(k)the Levite and the alien who is among you shall ^(l)rejoice in all the good which the Lord your God has given you and your household.