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"When you have come to the land ADONAI your God is giving you as your inheritance, taken possession of it and settled there;
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you are to take the firstfruits of all the crops the ground yields, which you will harvest from your land that ADONAI your God is giving you, put them in a basket and go to the place where ADONAI your God will choose to have his name live.
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You will approach the cohen holding office at the time and say to him, 'Today I declare to ADONAI your God that I have come to the land ADONAI swore to our ancestors that he would give us.'
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The cohen will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of ADONAI your God.
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"Then, in the presence of ADONAI your God, you are to say, 'My ancestor was a nomad from Aram. He went down into Egypt few in number and stayed. There he became a great, strong, populous nation.
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But the Egyptians treated us badly; they oppressed us and imposed harsh slavery on us.
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So we cried out to ADONAI, the God of our ancestors. ADONAI heard us and saw our misery, toil and oppression;