Deuteronomy 6:21

21 tell your child, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and God powerfully intervened and got us out of that country.

Deuteronomy 6:21 Meaning and Commentary

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''

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.

Deuteronomy 6:21 In-Context

19 throwing out your enemies left and right - exactly as God said.

20 The next time your child asks you, "What do these requirements and regulations and rules that God, our God, has commanded mean?"

21 tell your child, "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt and God powerfully intervened and got us out of that country.

22 We stood there and watched as God delivered miracle-signs, great wonders, and evil-visitations on Egypt, on Pharaoh and his household.

23 He pulled us out of there so he could bring us here and give us the land he so solemnly promised to our ancestors.