Deuteronomy 26:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ Go to the priest who is serving at that time. Tell him, ‘The Lord promised our ancestors that he would give us some land. Today I come to announce to the Lord your God that I have come to that land.’

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.