1 Soon you will go into the land the Lord your God is giving you to own. You will take it over and live in it.
2 Then you must take some of the first harvest of crops. It will grow from the land the Lord your God is giving you. Put the food in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to be worshiped.
3 Say to the priest on duty at that time, “Today I declare this before the Lord your God. I have come into the land the Lord promised to give us. He promised this to our ancestors.”
4 The priest will take your basket. He will set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
5 Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt. He stayed there with only a few people. But they became a great, powerful and large nation there.
6 But the Egyptians were cruel to us. They made us suffer and work very hard.
7 So we prayed to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard us. He saw our trouble, hard work and suffering.