Deuteronomy 26:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean.^[a] He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people. ⁶ The Egyptians treated us badly. They made us slaves. They hurt us and forced us to work very hard. ⁷ Then we prayed to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and complained about them. And the Lord heard us. He saw our trouble, our hard work, and our suffering.