Deuteronomy 16:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.
וְזָ֣כַרְתָּ֔ כִּי־עֶ֥בֶד הָיִ֖יתָ בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣ וְעָשִׂ֔יתָ אֶת־הֽ͏ַחֻקִּ֖ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 15:15Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.
- Eph 2:11For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands:
- Deut 16:15Seven days shalt thou celebrate feasts to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: and the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, and thou shalt be in joy.
- Eph 2:1And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,
- Eph 2:3In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:
- Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have obeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have been delivered.
- Rom 6:18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
- Lam 3:19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.