Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionThen beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.Gtake care lest you forget YHWH who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of slavery.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G Messagebe careful that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
BSB
Berean Standard Biblebe careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Footnotes
"House of slavery" (*beit avadim*) is the Torah's recurring liturgical shorthand for Mitzrayim, appearing like a refrain throughout Deuteronomy. Its placement here is pointed: it is precisely at the moment of satiation and settlement—full stomachs, filled houses, unearned abundance—that covenant amnesia is most dangerous. Material prosperity becomes the soil in which forgetting grows. The pattern anticipates Yeshua's warning in the parable of the sower (Luke 8:14), where the cares and riches of life choke the word. Both translations render the phrase directly; its weight comes from its deliberate liturgical recurrence.
