1 “After you have occupied the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have settled there,
2 each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.
3 Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘I now acknowledge to the Lord my God that I have entered the land that he promised our ancestors to give us.’
4 “The priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
5 Then, in the Lord's presence you will recite these words: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, who took his family to Egypt to live. They were few in number when they went there, but they became a large and powerful nation.
6 The Egyptians treated us harshly and forced us to work as slaves.