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Deuteronomy 26:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
Deuteronomy 26:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy God, A [a]Syrian was my father, who being ready to perish for hunger, went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a small company and grew there unto a nation great, mighty [b]and full of people.
6 And the Egyptians vexed us, and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage.
7 But when we [c]cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our adversity, and on our labor, and on our oppression:
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- Deuteronomy 26:5 Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 Only by God’s mercy, and not by their fathers’ deservings.
- Deuteronomy 26:7 Alleging the promises made unto our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 26:5-7
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Deuteronomy 26:5-7
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5 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. 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer,(E) subjecting us to harsh labor.(F) 7 Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our voice(G) and saw(H) our misery,(I) toil and oppression.(J)
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