⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Syrian was my father, and he went·​·down to Egypt, and sojourned there with a few mortals, and there became a great nation, numerous and many;

¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and go after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them^◦, shall even^▵ be as this girdle^◦, which prospers not for anything^◦.