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Let me tell you a story about a prayer for protection. My father was a slave and my grandfather also, and so were his father and his grandfather. For almost four hundred years the offspring of Jacob has been subjected to harsh labor under the Egyptians. At first we enjoyed luxury and protection under the government of Joseph and the Pharaoh who favored him and his family, but those times are gone long ago. Now we live in despair. Our day is a long and tiresome struggle for survival. Those who are not fit for work or become sick face a common destiny: starvation and death. For those of us still alive, the future holds no hope of freedom. We wait only for a miracle that seems to be in store always for the next generation.
throughout the land of Egypt. Their cry was one and the same: freedom!