“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:”
Then you shall make this response before the LORD your God: 'A wandering Aramean was my father; he went down to Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number; and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous' — the 'Aramean' is Jacob (cf. Hosea 12:12); the phrase captures Israel's origins in nomadic precarity. The movement from 'wandering' (oyved) to 'great nation' (goy gadol) summarizes the patriarchal narrative.
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