13 “If I have denied justice to any of my servants,(A)
    whether male or female,
    when they had a grievance against me,(B)

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13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

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Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.(A) 10 So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free. 11 But afterward they changed their minds(B) and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.

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That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

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