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Then you will respond and say in the presence of the Lord your God, “My father was a wandering[a] Aramean. He went down to Egypt and lived there as an alien with just a few people, but there he became a great, strong, and populous nation. The Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us. They imposed hard labor on us. We cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice, and he saw our affliction, our labor, and oppression.

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  1. Deuteronomy 26:5 Or perishing

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering(A) Aramean,(B) and he went down into Egypt with a few people(C) and lived there and became a great nation,(D) powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,(E) subjecting us to harsh labor.(F) Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice(G) and saw(H) our misery,(I) toil and oppression.(J)

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