Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

This line comes from the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Book of Exodus, where Moses addresses the Israelites immediately after their departure from Egypt. Having been freed from slavery (“the house of bondage”) through divine intervention and the events surrounding the Passover, the people are commanded to remember the day of liberation. The injunction functions as a foundation for communal memory and ritual practice: the Exodus is to be recalled and reenacted through observances such as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, shaping Israel’s identity as a people redeemed from oppression and bound by covenantal obligations.

The quote is a command to preserve historical memory as a moral and spiritual discipline. “Remember this day” frames liberation not as a private experience but as a collective origin story that must be kept alive through teaching and ritual. The phrase “house of bondage” intensifies the contrast between oppression and freedom, underscoring that deliverance entails responsibility: gratitude, obedience, and solidarity with the vulnerable. In later Jewish and Christian reception, the Exodus becomes a paradigm for redemption—political, ethical, and theological—invoked whenever communities seek to interpret suffering, emancipation, and the duties that follow freedom.