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)

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.

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)

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)

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