Deuteronomy 26:4

New American Bible - revised edition

The priest shall then take the basket from your hands and set it in front of the altar of the Lord, your God.

Cross References

Matthew 23:19

You blind ones, which is greater, the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Deuteronomy 26:3

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.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

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.