And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
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Gill's Exposition
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God,.... Speak with a loud voice, lifting up the voice, as Jarchi interprets it; or "answer" (e), to the question the priest will ask, saying, what is…
Barnes' Notes
A Syrian ready to perish was my father - The reference is shown by the context to be to Jacob, as the ancestor in whom particularly the family of Abraham began to develop into a nation (compare Isa…
Here is, I. A good work ordered to be done, and that is the presenting of a basket of their first-fruits to God every year, Deu 26:1, Deu 26:2. Besides the sheaf of first-fruits, which was offered for…
Cambridge Bible
answer testify, as in Deu 5:20; Deu 19:16; Deu 19:18; Deu 21:7; Deu 25:9.
A nomad Aramean was my father Jacob-Israel, the son of an Aramean (Gen 24:10, cp. Deu 24:4), himself a nomad shepherd in Aram…
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