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And you shall rememberוְזָכַרְתָּthatכִּיyou wereהָיִיתָa slaveעֶבֶדin Egypt,בְּמִצְרָיִםand you shall keepוְשָׁמַרְתָּand carry outוְעָשִׂיתָtheseהָאֵלֶּהstatutes.אֶת הַחֻקִּים
Deuteronomy 16:12
Study it in the app“And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall keep and carry out these statutes.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Deuteronomy 16:12, word by word
- And you shall rememberזָכַרְתָּzacharta
remember
To bring something to mind and keep it present so as to act on it.
Where else “zacharta” appears- you wereהָיִיתָhayita
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayita” appears- a slaveעֶבֶדeved
slave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “eved” appears- in Egyptמִצְרָיִםmitsrayim
Egypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears- and you shall keepשָׁמַרְתָּshamarta
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shamarta” appears- and carry outעָשִׂיתָasita
carry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “asita” appears- statutesחֻקִּיםchukim
statute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chukim” appears
Places in this verse
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
The context
11And you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, your male slave and your female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are among you, in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.
12 · This verse (above)
13The Feast of Booths you shall celebrate for yourself seven days, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your winepress.