📜WEB · Deuteronomy 25:18

What does Deuteronomy 25:18 mean?

"how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God."

— Deuteronomy 25:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

16

For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;

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how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

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Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.

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