⁴³ Do not rule over them ruthlessly,^(A) but fear your God.^(B)

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

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.

¹⁷ Do not take advantage of each other,^(A) but fear your God.^(B) I am the Lord your God.^(C)

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)

⁹ And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours^(A) is in heaven, and there is no favoritism^(B) with him.

⁴ 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)

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)

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.