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Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before[a] the altar of Yahweh your God. And you shall declare[b] and you shall say before[c] your God, ‘My ancestor[d] was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien few in number,[e] and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:4 Literally “to the face of”
  2. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “answer”
  3. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “to the face of”
  4. Deuteronomy 26:5 Or “father”
  5. Deuteronomy 26:5 Literally “in people only a few”