You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
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You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this word.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to doe this thing.
Remember that thou also wast a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I command thee to do this thing.
and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.
and you have remembered that you have been a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.”
You must call to mind that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I instruct you to obey this command.
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this word.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond-man in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Remember you were once slaves in Egypt. That's why I'm ordering you to do this.
Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 49 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 49 words vs World English Bible 21. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְזָ֣כַרְתָּ֔ כִּי עֶ֥בֶד הָיִ֖יתָ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם עַל כֵּ֞ן אָנֹכִ֤י מְצַוְּךָ֙ לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת אֶת הַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּֽה
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί μιμνήσκω ὅτι οἰκέτης εἰμί ἐν γῆ αἴγυπτος διά οὗτος ἐγώ σύ ἐντέλλομαι ποιέω ὁ ῥῆμα οὗτος
And if you should gather your olives, you shall not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְתִדְכַּר אֲרֵי עַבְדָא הֲוֵיתָא בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם עַל כֵּן אֲנָא מְפַקְדָךְ לְמֵעְבַּד יָת פִּתְגָמָא הָדֵין
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְתֶהֱווּן דְּכִירִין אֲרוּם מְשַׁעְבְּדִין הֲוֵיתוּן בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם בְּגִין כֵּן אֲנָא מְפַקֵּיד לְכוֹן לְמֶעֱבַד יַת פִּתְגָמָא הָדֵין
So remember that you were bondservants in the land of Mizraim; therefore I command you to do this thing.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 14 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zâkar (“to remember”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 24:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.