1 When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, and have taken possession and settled in it,
2 you shall take some first fruits of the various products of the soil which you harvest from the land the Lord, your God, is giving you; put them in a basket and go to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose as the dwelling place for his name.
3 There you shall go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, “Today I acknowledge to the Lord, my God, that I have indeed come into the land which the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.”
4 The priest shall then take the basket from your hands and set it in front of the altar of the Lord, your God.
5 Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.
6 When the Egyptians maltreated and oppressed us, imposing harsh servitude upon us,