Jeremiah 34:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 That every man should let his [a]servant go free, and every man his handmaid, which was an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, and that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
10 Now when all the princes, and all the people which was agreed to the covenant, heard that everyone should let his servant go free, and everyone his handmaid, and that none should serve themselves of them anymore, they obeyed and let them go.
11 But afterward they [b]repented and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and held them in subjection as servants and handmaids.
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- Jeremiah 34:9 According to the Law, Exod. 21:2; Deut. 15:12.
- Jeremiah 34:11 Hebrew, returneth.
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