Fear thy God - Yahweh was the Lord and Master of His people. To treat a Hebrew as a slave was therefore to interfere with the right…

You shall not rule over him with rigour. —The master is forbidden to tyrannise over him as if he were a slave without any…

You shall not rule over him with rigour As the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites, and made them to serve, ([Reference E…

A native Israelite, if sold for debt or for a crime, was to serve only six years and to go out free in the seventh. If he sold himself because of p…