⁴³ You shall not rule over them with harshness but shall fear your God.^(A)

4 ¹ Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, for you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

⁵³ As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien’s authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight.

⁴⁶ You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.^(A)

¹⁷ You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.^(A)

¹³ The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude ¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.^(A)

⁹ And, masters,^[a] do the same to them. Stop threatening them, for you know that both of you have the same Lord^[b] in heaven, and with him there is no partiality.^(A)

⁴ You have not strengthened the weak; you have not healed the sick; you have not bound up the injured; you have not brought back the strays; you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them.^(A)

⁵ Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.^(A)