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Deuteronomy 26:5

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And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

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  1. Deuteronomy 26:3

    And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess 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.

  2. Deuteronomy 26:4

    And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.

  3. Deuteronomy 26:6

    And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

  4. Deuteronomy 26:7

    And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.