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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,[a] yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor. So we cried out to the Lord God of our ancestors, and he[b] heard our cries and observed our affliction, trouble, and oppression.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:5 The Heb. lacks family members
  2. Deuteronomy 26:7 Lit. the Lord

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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