22And 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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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. …
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. …
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. …
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)Here, I. Masters are commanded to be just to their poor servants, Deut. 24:14 , 15 . 1. They must not oppress them, by overloading them with work, by giving them undue and unreasonable rebukes, or by withholding from them proper maintenance. A servant, though a stranger to the commonwealth of Israel, must not be abused: “For thou wast a bondman in the land where thou wast a stranger (Deut. 24:18),…
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