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worshiped other gods.3 But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac, a and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt. [this is where Haggadah ends the quotel '"'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you 6When out. I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with t chariots and horsemenl"l as far as the Red Sea.l-tl But they cried to the LORD for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time. 8 "'l brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east ofthe Jordan. They fought against you. but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession oftheir e land. When Balak son ofZippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam l0 son of Beor to put a curse on you. But I would not listen to Balaam. so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out ofhis hand. tt "'Th"n you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens ofJericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites. Perizzites, Canaanites. Hittites. Girsashites. Hivites and Jebusites. but I save them
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Didn't the "We were slaves" that the sages said come from the Torah? "You should say to your child: We were slaves to Pharaoh" (Deut 6:21). And "Joshua said to the whole people (Josh 24:2) isn't this the same as: In the beginning (our
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