Deuteronomy 26:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 And thou shalt come unto the Priest, that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I acknowledge this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.
5 And thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy God, A [a]Syrian was my father, who being ready to perish for hunger, went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small company and grew there unto a nation great, mighty [b]and full of people.
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- Deuteronomy 26:5 Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Only by God’s mercy, and not by their fathers’ deservings.
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