The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
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The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 26:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 5:23-24 “If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
- Matthew 23:19 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Hebrews 13:10-12 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the priest shall take the basket out of…
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand,.... To wave it, as Jarchi says, putting his hand under the hand of the owner, and so waving it; and this being waved to and fro towards the several corners of the earth, was an acknowledgment of the Lord being the proprietor of it:
and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God; that it might have some appearance of a sacrifice, and be a fit emblem of the spiritual sacrifice of praise, which is accepted upon the altar Christ, which sanctifies every gift.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. before the altar] In D only here.
4. before the altar] In D only here.
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