First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:4-10

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 wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
⁶ And the Egyptians treated us harshly, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.
⁷ Then we 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 the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs and wonders;
⁹ and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
¹⁰ And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O LORD, hast given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;