Deuteronomy 24:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְזָ֣כַרְתָּ֔ כִּי־עֶ֥בֶד הָיִ֖יתָ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם עַל־כֵּ֞ן אָנֹכִ֤י מְצַוְּךָ֙ לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת אֶת־הַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And zākartā that ʿebed hāyîtā in land of Miṣrāyim; therefore ʾānōkî məṣawwəkā to do ʾet-haddābār hazzeh.

Grammar Details

• *zākartā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall remember
• *ʿebed*: masculine singular noun - slave/servant
• *hāyîtā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you were
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st common singular independent pronoun - I
• *məṣawwəkā*: piel participle masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - commanding you
• *haddābār*: definite masculine singular noun - the thing/matter
• *hazzeh*: definite demonstrative masculine singular - this

Referenced Verses

• Deut 24:18 : 18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
• Isa 51:1 : 1 Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
• 2 Cor 8:8-9 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• 1 John 4:10-11 : 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
• Deut 5:14-15 : 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God: [in it] you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
• Deut 7:8 : 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.