You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
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You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 24:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 5:14-15 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Isaiah 51:1 “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
- 2 Corinthians 8:8-9 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Ephesians 5:1-2 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- 1 John 4:10-11 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God judged them not mindful of his benefit, except…
God judged them not mindful of his benefit, except they were beneficial unto others.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman…
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,.... When they would have been glad to have enjoyed the like favours, as small as they might seem to be, even to glean in their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards:
therefore I command thee to do this thing; to suffer the poor to take the forgotten sheaf, and to come into their oliveyards and vineyards, and gather what olives and grapes remained after the first beating of the one, and the ingathering of the other.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. And thou shalt remember] See on Deu_24:18.
22. And thou shalt remember] See on Deu_24:18.
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