4The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.


In Context

1 When you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,

2 take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the Lord your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name

3 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 forefathers to give us."

4 The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.

5 Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

6 But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor.

Deuteronomy 26:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket from thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:4The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:4and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:4And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.