While the basket is still on his shoulder, he reads from “I have declared today to Hashem your God” until he finishes the whole section. R' Yehudah says: [He reads only] until (Deuteronomy 26:5): “An Aramean planned to destroy my father.”  When he reaches “an Aramean planned to destroy my father,” he lowers the basket from his shoulder and holds it from its rim, and a Kohen places his hand under it and waves it.  And he reads from “an Aramean [planned to] destroy my father” until he finishes the whole section.  And he places it on the side of the Altar, and he bows and leaves.

Originally, whoever knew how to read would read [himself], and whoever did not know how to read, they would dictate to him. They [who could not read] refrained from bringing [bikkurim].  They [the Sages] enacted that they should dictate to one who knows how to read and to one who does not know how to read.

The wealthy bring their bikkurim in baskets of silver and gold, and the poor bring them in baskets of peeled willow branches, and the baskets and the bikkurim are given to the Kohanim.

R' Shimon ben Nannas says: We may adorn the bikkurim [with fruit] other than of the Seven Species.  R' Akiva says: We may not adorn the bikkurim other than [with fruit] of the Seven Species.