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13 So the Egyptians brutally compelled the sons of Israel (A)to slave labor; 14 and they made (B)their lives bitter with [a]hard slave labor in mortar and bricks and in all kinds of slave labor in the field, all their slave labor which they brutally [b]compelled them to do.

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  1. Exodus 1:14 Lit stiff
  2. Exodus 1:14 Lit worked through them

13 and worked them ruthlessly.(A) 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor(B) in brick(C) and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.(D)

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46 You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. (A)But in respect to your brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another with brutality.

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46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

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53 Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; (A)he shall not have dominion over him with brutality in your sight.

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53 They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.(A)

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Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, and the [a]diseased you have not healed, and (A)the broken you have not bound up, and the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you (B)searched for the lost; but with strength and with severity you have dominated them.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:4 Lit sick

You have not strengthened the weak or healed(A) the sick or bound up(B) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(C)

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Final Instructions and Greetings

Masters, show to your slaves what is right and fair, (A)knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

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

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