Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

Let brotherly love continue.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.