1. `And it hath been, when thou comest in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--an inheritance, and thou hast possessed it, and dwelt in it,
2. that thou hast taken of the first of all the fruits of the ground which thou dost bring in out of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and hast put [it] in a basket, and gone unto the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there.
3. `And thou hast come in unto the priest who is in those days, and hast said unto him, I have declared to-day to Jehovah thy God, that I have come in unto the land which Jehovah hath sworn to our fathers to give to us;
4. and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
5. `And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;
6. and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;