Deuteronomy 16:12
10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
11 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
13 You are to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.
14 And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
- KJV
- And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
- WEB
- You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.
- ASV
- And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
- DARBY
- And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and thou shalt keep and do these statutes.
- BLB
- And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful and do these statutes.
- ÅB
- Og du skal komme i hu at du var slave i Egypt, og du skal ta vare på disse forskrifter og holde dem.
- OTB
- Husk at du var slaver i Egypt, og følg nøye disse forskriftene.
- B1930
- Og du skal komme i hu at du var træl i Egypten, og du skal ta vare på disse forskrifter og holde dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 15:15
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 16:15
For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
Read in contextLamentations 3:19–20
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Read in contextEphesians 2:1–3
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Read in contextRomans 6:17–18
But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
Read in contextEphesians 2:11
Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
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