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Deuteronomy 26:4

Listen to Deuteronomy 26:4
4 The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 26:4 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
English Standard Version (ESV)
4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
New Living Translation (NLT)
4 The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.
The Message Bible (MSG)
4 The priest will take the basket from you and place it on the Altar of God, your God.
American Standard Version (ASV)
4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
4 Then the priest will take the basket from you and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
4 "Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
4 The priest will take the basket from you. He'll set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 26:4 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 26:4

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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Deuteronomy 26:4 In-Context

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 ancestors 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, subjecting us to harsh labor.
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.

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