“Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,”
God recalls: 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers...saying.' The covenant concerning slave release is rooted in the exodus narrative. The people who themselves were freed should enact that freedom for Hebrew slaves.
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