Deuteronomy 26:5-7

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁵ And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.

⁶ And the Egyptians treated us very badly and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage.

⁷ And when we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our [cruel] oppression;