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"But if that slavesays in his heart, 'My master will be a longtime in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves*, both men and women, and to eat and drink and getdrunk;
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"Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes.
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"Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
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"But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master will be a long time in coming,' and begins to beat the slaves , both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;
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the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
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"And that slave who knew his master's will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many lashes,