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slialt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shalt choose to 
place his name there. 
" And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, 
and say imto him : ' I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, 
that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our 
fathers for to give us.' 
''And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and 
set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. 
" And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, 'A 
Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into 
Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a na- 
tion, great, mighty, and populous ;' 
" ' And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and 
laid upon us hard bondage. 
" ' And when Ave cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the 
Lord heard our voice, and looked on our afflictions, and our labor, 
and our oppression : 
" ' And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty 
hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, 
and with signs, and Avith wonders : 
" ' And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us 
this land, even a land that floweth Avith milk and honey. 
" ' And noAv, behold, I have brouglit the first-fruits of the land 
which thou, 0 Lord, hast given me.' 
" And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and Avorship 
before the Lord thy God. 
" And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing Avhich the Lord 
thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house ; thou, and the 
Levite, and the stranger that is among you." — Deut. xxvi., 1-11. 
