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When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, say to him, “Today I declare to the Lord your[a] God that I have entered the land the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.”

‘Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God. You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean.(A) He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.(B) There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

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  1. 26:3 LXX reads my