Deuteronomy 26:4
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New International Version (©2011)
The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the LORD your God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

NET Bible (©2006)
The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the priest will take the basket from you and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

American King James Version
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your 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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:

Darby Bible Translation
And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah 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.

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.

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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-11 When God has made good his promises to us, he expects we should own it to the honour of his faithfulness. And our creature comforts are doubly sweet, when we see them flowing from the fountain of the promise. The person who offered his first-fruits, must remember and own the mean origin of that nation, of which he was a member. A Syrian ready to perish was my father. Jacob is here called a Syrian. Their nation in its infancy sojourned in Egypt as strangers, they served there as slaves. They were a poor, despised, oppressed people in Egypt; and though become rich and great, had no reason to be proud, secure, or forgetful of God. He must thankfully acknowledge God's great goodness to Israel. The comfort we have in our own enjoyments, should lead us to be thankful for our share in public peace and plenty; and with present mercies we should bless the Lord for the former mercies we remember, and the further mercies we expect and hope for. He must offer his basket of first-fruits. Whatever good thing God gives us, it is his will that we make the most comfortable use we can of it, tracing the streams to the Fountain of all consolation.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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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Offering Firstfruits and Tithes
…3And you shall go to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess this day to the LORD your God, that I am come to the country which the LORD swore to our fathers for to give us. 4And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 5And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: …

Deuteronomy 26:3 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 ancestors to give us."
Deuteronomy 26:5 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.