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that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.
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Verse 9. Brethren. The sabbatical year happened in the 9th of Sedecias, when the Chaldees approaching, caused him to shew some signs of religion. But when they departed to meet the Egyptians, the people repented of what they had done well. Calmet.—Such a relapse offends God more than the former sins, as our Saviour shews by a parable. Matthew 18. Worthington.
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