^{5 Ref} And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

^{6 Ref} And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

^{7 Ref} And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work:

^{8 Ref} And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:

^{9 Ref} And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.