Deuteronomy 6:21

The NET Bible®

you must say to them, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Update Bible Version
then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

English Revised Version
then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

New Century Version
tell them, "We were slaves to the king of Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt by his great power.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thou shalt say to thy son, We were Pharoah's bond-men in Egypt: and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

World English Bible
then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Amplified Bible
then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou schalt seie to hym, We weren `seruauntis of Farao in Egipt, and the Lord ledde vs out of Egipt, in strong hond;

Young's Literal Translation
then thou hast said to thy son, Servants we have been to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Jehovah bringeth us out of Egypt by a high hand;

Berean Standard Bible
then you are to tell him, "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will answer: We were slaves of the king of Egypt, but the Lord used his great power and set us free.

American Standard Version
then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Bible in Basic English
Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne: We were Pharaos bondmen in Egypt, and the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hande:

Complete Jewish Bible
Then you will tell your child, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Adonai brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Darby Translation
then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a powerful hand;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will say to them, ‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his great power.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then thou shalt say unto thy son: 'We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

King James Version (1611)
Then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

New Life Bible
Then say to your son, ‘We were servants of Pharaoh in Egypt. But the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

New Revised Standard
then you shall say to your children, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shalt thou say unto thy son, Servants, were we unto Pharaoh in Egypt, - and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a firm hand;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.

George Lamsa Translation
Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaohs slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Good News Translation
Then tell them, ‘We were slaves of the king of Egypt, and the Lord rescued us by his great power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Revised Standard Version
then you shall say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

Christian Standard Bible®
tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Hebrew Names Version
then you shall tell your son, We were Par`oh's bondservants in Mitzrayim: and the LORD brought us out of Mitzrayim with a mighty hand;

King James Version
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

Lexham English Bible
Then you shall say to your child, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand.

Literal Translation
Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shalt thou saye vnto thy sonne: We were Pharaos bondmen in Egipte, and the LORDE brought vs out of Egipte with a mightie hande,

New American Standard Bible
then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

New King James Version
then you shall say to your son: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

New Living Translation
"Then you must tell them, ‘We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his strong hand.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then you shall say to your son, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us from Egypt with a mighty hand.

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us from Egypt with a strong hand.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Keep his commandments very carefully, as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe. ¹⁸ Do whatever is proper and good before the Lord so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors, ¹⁹ and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said. ²⁰ When your children ask you later on, "What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?" ²¹ you must say to them, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way. ²² And he brought signs and great, devastating wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on his whole family before our very eyes. ²³ He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors. ²⁴ The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day. ²⁵ We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments before the Lord our God, just as he demands."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:2, Nehemiah 9:9, Nehemiah 9:10, Psalms 136:10-12, Isaiah 51:1, Jeremiah 32:20, Jeremiah 32:21, Romans 6:17, Romans 6:18, Ephesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:12

We were: Deuteronomy 5:6, Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 15:15, Deuteronomy 26:5-9

with a mighty: Exodus 3:19, Exodus 13:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:34 - by a mighty Joshua 4:6 - when your Psalms 105:45 - That Acts 7:36 - after

Cross-References

Job 38:41
Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

Job 40:20
For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

Psalms 35:6
May their path be dark and slippery, as the Lord 's angel chases them!

Psalms 136:25
to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.

Psalms 145:16
You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.

Psalms 147:9
He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 21 Then shall thou say unto thy son,.... In order to lead him into the spring and original of them, and to acquaint him with the goodness of God, which laid them under obligation to observe them:

we were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; were brought into bondage and slavery to Pharaoh king of Egypt, into whose country their ancestors came, and where they resided many years, and at length were reduced to the utmost servitude and misery:

and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; by the exertion of his mighty power, which the Egyptians and their king could not withstand, as a token of his care and kindness to us; by the ties of which we are bound in gratitude to observe his commands. The Targum of Jonathan is,

"the Word of the Lord brought us, &c.''

and it was Christ the Son of God that was from first to last concerned in that affair, even from the appearance to Moses in the bush to Israel's coming out of Egypt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.