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Rather, would he not say, Prepare something that I may have okhel; gird up your tunic and serve me until I am satisfied, and, after that, you may have okhel?

There is no obligatory effusive todah, when the eved only did his chiyuv (duty).

10 So also you, when you do all these things which are given you as mitzvot, say, We are useless avadim, we only did our chiyuv.

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Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me(A) while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”(B)

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