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

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

4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

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

4 The priest will take the basket from you and place it on the Altar of God, your God.

4 "Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before 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.

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.