Six days you are to labor and do all your work,

"A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, who went down to Egypt and traveled there with very few family members, yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor.

"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously