Deuteronomy 16:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

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  • Deut 15:15 : 15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.
  • Deut 16:15 : 15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.
  • Lam 3:19-20 : 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
  • Rom 6:17-18 : 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; 18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
  • Eph 2:1-3 : 1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins, 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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    22 Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

  • Deut 24:18
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    18 But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

  • Deut 15:14-15
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    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

    15 And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

  • Deut 5:15
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    15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Deut 6:12
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    12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Deut 16:13-14
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    13 You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:

    14 You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

  • Deut 11:32
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    32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • Deut 16:11
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    11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

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    40 And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God.

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    14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

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    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

  • Deut 26:16
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    16 Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

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    14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

  • Deut 12:18-19
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    18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

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  • Deut 8:11
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    11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

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    8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.

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    24 And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.

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    18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;

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    11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

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    20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

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    14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

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    1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

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    36 But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

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