Deuteronomy 26:4

Good News Translation

“The priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.

Cross References

Matthew 23:19

How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?

Deuteronomy 26:3

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.’

Deuteronomy 26:5

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.