The fourth commandment in the third set of Ten Commandments (see pages 164–165), very like the first, reminds readers that they were once slaves to an earthly master and are now slaves to a more powerful one: “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.”23 Ownership simply transferred from Pharaoh to Yahweh.
