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Jeremiah 34 📜 📕 ↷
Freedom for Hebrew Slaves
8 The word that was made to Jeremy from our Lord, after that king Sedecias made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem, proclaiming:📜💬📚
9 That every one should dismiss his servant, and every one his handmaid; the Hebrew man & the Hebrew woman free: And that they should not have dominion over them, that is, on a Jew and his brother.📜💬📚
10 All the Princes therefore heard, and all the people which had made the covenant that every man should dismiss his servant, and every man his handmaid free, and should no more have dominion over them: they heard therefore, and dismissed them.📜💬📚
11 And they turned afterwards: and drew their servants and their handmaids back again, whom they had dismist free, and brought them into subjection as men servants, and women servants.📜💬📚
12 And the word of our Lord was made to Jeremy from our Lord, saying:📜💬📚
13 Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day, that I brought them out of the Land of AEgypt, from the house of bondage, saying:📜💬📚
14 When seven years shall be accomplished, let every man dismiss his brother an Hebrew, that was sold to him, and he shall serve thee six years: and thou shalt dismiss him free from thee: and your fathers have not heard me, nor inclined their ear.📜💬📚
15 And you were converted this day, & did that which is right in mine eyes, that you proclaimed liberty every one to his friend: and you made a covenant in my sight, in the house, wherein my name is invocated upon it.📜💬📚
16 And you are returned, and have defiled my name: and you have brought back again every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had dismist to be free, and of their own jurisdiction: and you have brought them into subjection to be your servants and handmaids.📜💬📚
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