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Once you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you as an inheritance and take it over and settle down,
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you are to take some of all the firstfruits of what you grow in the land that God, your God, is giving you, put them in a basket and go to the place God, your God, sets apart for you to worship him.
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At that time, go to the priest who is there and say, "I announce to God, your God, today that I have entered the land that God promised our ancestors that he'd give to us."
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The priest will take the basket from you and place it on the Altar of God, your God.
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And there in the Presence of God, your God, you will recite, A wandering Aramean was my father, he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, he and just a handful of his brothers at first, but soon they became a great nation, mighty and many.
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The Egyptians abused and battered us, in a cruel and savage slavery.
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We cried out to God, the God-of-Our-Fathers: He listened to our voice, he saw our destitution, our trouble, our cruel plight.
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And God took us out of Egypt with his strong hand and long arm, terrible and great, with signs and miracle-wonders.
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And he brought us to this place, gave us this land flowing with milk and honey.
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So here I am. I've brought the firstfruits of what I've grown on this ground you gave me, O God.
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And rejoice! Celebrate all the good things that God, your God, has given you and your family; you and the Levite and the foreigner who lives with you.