Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt. — “And that I furnished and adorned thee from the spoils of Egypt and the spoils of the sea” (Rashi).
Therefore I command thee· — In Leviticus 25:42 the reason is given thus: “They are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen” (i.e., not for ever). The land was under the same restriction — it “shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine” (Leviticus 25:16-17; Leviticus 25:23.