And if a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, vengeance shall be taken to avenge.

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our fields and vineyards.

If I despised the cause of my male or female servant when they have a dispute with me,

Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

When He investigates bloodshed, He forgets not the cry of the lowly.

But You have seen it, for You pay attention to trouble and provocation; to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

to vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

For He shall deliver the needy when he cries, and the lowly who has no helper.

He shall redeem their soul from oppression and violence; and their blood shall be precious in His sight.

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor oppress the afflicted in the gate;

for Jehovah will plead their case, and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in Heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.

Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in Heaven.