When, in time to come, your children ask you: "What is the meaning of the decrees, laws, and rules that Adonai our God has enjoined upon you?" You shall say to your children: "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and Adonai freed us from Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Adonai produced before our eyes great and awful signs and wonders in Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household and God freed us from there, so that God could take us and give us the land that had been promised on oath to our ancestors" (Deut. 6:20-23).

עֲבָדִים הָיִינוּ לְפַרְעֹה בְּמִצְרָיֽם

Avadim hayinu, L'Paroa b'Mitzrayim

We were slaves, for Pharoah in Egypt

עֲבָדִים הָיִינוּ עַתָּה - בְּנֵי חוֹרִין

Avadim hayinu ata - b'nei chorin

We were slaves, now we are the children of freemen


haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story
Source: The Family Participation Haggadah