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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 15: 13 And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;
Deuteronomy 15: 14 thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Deuteronomy 15: 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
Deuteronomy 15: 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee;
Deuteronomy 15: 17 then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.
Deuteronomy 15: 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.
Deuteronomy 15: 19 All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.
Deuteronomy 15: 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
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