“Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment.

I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt.

On this day in early spring, in the month of Abib, you have been set free.

Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”

“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he may serve for no more than six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom.

If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.

“If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave and they had sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.

But the slave may declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I don’t want to go free.’

“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.

If he fails in any of these three obligations, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.

“If a man hits his male or female slave in the eye and the eye is blinded, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.

And if a man knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.

So the people of Israel—every man and woman who was eager to help in the work the Lord had given them through Moses—brought their gifts and gave them freely to the Lord.