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Then the priest will take the basket from you[a] and place it in front of the altar of the Lord your God. Then you are to affirm and declare in the presence of the Lord your God:

‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, who went down to Egypt and traveled there with very few family members,[b] yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:4 Lit. your hand
  2. Deuteronomy 26:5 The Heb. lacks family members