you must say to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;We were Pharaoh&#8217;s slaves in Egypt, but the <sc>Lordsc> brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.<n id="2" />

Be careful<n id="1" /> not to say, &#8220;My own ability and skill<n id="2" /> have gotten me this wealth.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, &#8220;I want to eat meat just as I please,&#8221;<n id="1" /> you may do so as you wish.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When you come to the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, &#8220;I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,&#8221;

You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, &#8220;I declare today to the <sc>Lordsc> your<n id="1" /> God that I have come into the land that the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> promised<n id="3" /> to our ancestors<n id="4" /> to give us.&#8221;

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

Then you shall say before the <sc>Lordsc> your God, &#8220;I have removed the sacred offering<n id="1" /> from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me.<n id="2" /> I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.