You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to the LORD your God, that I have come to the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God’s altar.
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish.
He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number.
There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.