¹³ And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.

⁵ “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers,^(A) adulterers^(B) and perjurers,^(C) against those who defraud laborers of their wages,^(D) who oppress the widows^(E) and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners^(F) among you of justice, but do not fear^(G) me,” says the Lord Almighty.

4 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair,^(A) because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

⁴² Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt,^(A) they must not be sold as slaves. ⁴³ Do not rule over them ruthlessly,^(B) but fear your God.^(C)

⁴⁴ “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

²¹ “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed^(A) toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.^(B)

⁴² If the God of my father,^(A) the God of Abraham^(B) and the Fear of Isaac,^(C) had not been with me,^(D) you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands,^(E) and last night he rebuked you.^(F)”