¹³ And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.

⁵ “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be ^(A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ^(B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, ^(C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

4 Masters, treat your bondservants^[a] justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

⁴² For they are ^(A)my servants,^[a] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ^43 (B)You shall not rule over him ^(C)ruthlessly but ^(D)shall fear your God. ⁴⁴ As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

²¹ And ^(A)I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,

^42 (A)If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the ^(B)Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^(C)God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and ^(D)rebuked you last night.”