Deuteronomy 26:1-9 ▼

1 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

2 you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

3 You must go to the priest 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 promised to our ancestors to give us.|

4 The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

5 Then you must affirm before the LORD your God, |A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

7 So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

8 Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

9 Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.