Jehovah the Deliverer
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, Jeremiah 34:13–14
Jehovah reminds Judah that He freed them from slavery in Egypt and so commanded them to free their own servants. The God who delivered Israel from bondage is the premortal Christ, the great Deliverer.
AttestedJehovah — the LORDHe speaks in the first person
How we know: Jehovah is the premortal Christ (Abraham 1:16; D&C 110:3–4)
- alludes to Deuteronomy 15:12 — The law to let a Hebrew servant go free in the seventh year.
