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“Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
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Hebrew Servants
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
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If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
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If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
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“But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
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“If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
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If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
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“An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye.
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And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
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It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and he will bear the guilt involved in the sacred gifts the Israelites consecrate, whatever their gifts may be. It will be on Aaron’s forehead continually so that they will be acceptable to the Lord.
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All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.
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They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning.
