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Deuteronomy 26:4-7 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

4. The priest shall then take the basket from your hands and set it in front of the altar of the Lord, your God.

5. Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.

6. When the Egyptians maltreated and oppressed us, imposing harsh servitude upon us,

7. we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.

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