Deuteronomy - 26:4



4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of Yahweh your God.

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Explanation and meaning of Deuteronomy 26:4.

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And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
and the priest hath taken the basket out of thy hand, and placed it before the altar of Jehovah thy God.
Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
And the priest, taking up the basket from your hand, shall place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
Capietque sacerdos canistrum e manu tua, et ponet illud coram altari Jehovae Dei tui.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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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