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Leviticus 25:53
And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

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Leviticus 25:51
If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

Leviticus 25:52
And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

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Deuteronomy 15:18
Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

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Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

Ezekiel 34:4
You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

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