Deuteronomy 26:4-6

Easy-to-Read Version

⁴ “Then the priest will take the basket from you. He will put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean.^[a] He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people. ⁶ The Egyptians treated us badly. They made us slaves. They hurt us and forced us to work very hard.