Deu 26:3-11, Ezr 10:11, Neh 9:3 | ESV | STEP | And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.

Deuteronomy 26:3-11

3 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land ^athat the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.

5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A ^bwandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, ^cfew in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And ^dthe Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then ^ewe cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 And ^fthe Lord brought us out of Egypt ^gwith a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, ^{▼▼Hebrew with great terror} with signs and wonders. 9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, ⁱa land flowing with milk and honey. 10 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. 11 And ^jyou shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

Ezra 10:11

11 Now then ^kmake confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. ^lSeparate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

Nehemiah 9:3

3 ^mAnd they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the Lord their God.