034:009 that every man should let his male servant, and every man
his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free;
that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit],
of a Jew his brother.
034:010 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered
into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant,
and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make
bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
034:011 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids,
whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into
subjection for servants and for handmaids.
034:012 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
034:013 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant
with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
034:014 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his
brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has
served you six years, you shall let him go free from you:
but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
034:015 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes,
in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you
had made a covenant before me in the house which is called
by my name:
034:016 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man
his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let
go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them
into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
034:017 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me,
to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every
man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,
says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine;
and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all
the kingdoms of the earth.
034:018 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant,
who have not performed the words of the covenant which they
made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed
between the parts of it;
034:019 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,
and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed
between the parts of the calf;
034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of those who seek their life; and their
dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the sky,
and to the animals of the earth.
034:021 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek
their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,
who have gone away from you.
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