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And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, ‘I declare today[a] to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors[b] to give to us.’ Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before[c] the altar of Yahweh your God. And you shall declare[d] and you shall say before[e] your God, ‘My ancestor[f] was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien few in number,[g] and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:3 Literally “the day”
  2. Deuteronomy 26:3 Or “fathers”
  3. Deuteronomy 26:4 Literally “to the face of”
  4. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “answer”
  5. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “to the face of”
  6. Deuteronomy 26:5 Or “father”
  7. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “in people only a few”

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.” The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering(A) Aramean,(B) and he went down into Egypt with a few people(C) and lived there and became a great nation,(D) powerful and numerous.

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