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This is the way that I want you to fast:
You must remove the chains
    from prisoners who should not be in prison.
You must stop being cruel
    to the people who work for you.
You must let people who are in pain go free.
You must break the yoke
    of work that is too hard for weak people.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 58:6 A yoke is a picture of very hard work that you cannot escape from.

“Is not this the kind of fasting(A) I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice(B)
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed(C) free
    and break every yoke?(D)

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