Deuteronomy 16:12
Good News Translation
Be sure that you obey these commands; do not forget that you were slaves in Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and diligently observe these statutes.

Contemporary English Version
Remember that you used to be slaves in Egypt, so obey these laws.

New American Bible
Remember that you too were slaves in Egypt, so carry out these statutes carefully.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.

Deuteronomy 16:15 Seven 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.

Deuteronomy 15:15 Remember 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.

Lamentations 3:19,20 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall. . . .

Romans 6:17,18 But 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. . . .

Ephesians 2:1-3,11 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, . . .

Context
The Feast of Weeks
11And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there: 12And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt: and thou shalt keep and do the things that are commanded.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:15
Remember 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.

Deuteronomy 16:13
Thou shalt celebrate the solemnity also of tabernacles seven days, when thou hast gathered in thy fruit of the barnfloor and of the winepress.

Deuteronomy 16:11
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