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 lived there.(B) There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

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Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering(A) Aramean,(B) and he went down into Egypt with a few people(C) and lived there and became a great nation,(D) powerful and numerous.

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and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.(A) I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession,(B) but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.(C)

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and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.(A) I assigned the hill country of Seir(B) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.(C)

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23 Then Israel went to Egypt;
Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 105:23 = Egypt

23 Then Israel entered Egypt;(A)
    Jacob resided(B) as a foreigner in the land of Ham.(C)

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For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,(A)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:4 Or them at last, or them for nothing

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“At first my people went down to Egypt(A) to live;
    lately, Assyria(B) has oppressed them.

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15 and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,(A)

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15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.(A)

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