Deuteronomy 26:3-7
Deuteronomy 26:3
And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord my God that I have entered the land which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
Deuteronomy 26:4
Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall respond and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and resided there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us.
Deuteronomy 26:7
Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our wretched condition, our trouble, and our oppression;