Bible verse
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 16.
8 For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
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.
12 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.
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.
16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
KJV
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt 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.
ERV
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
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