“You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. You shall observe and do these statutes.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 16 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.