Jeremiah 34:8-11

International Standard Version

A Broken Agreement with Hebrew Servants

⁸ This is^[a] this message from the Lord that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem proclaiming release for them. ⁹ Each person was to set free his male and female slaves who were Hebrews, so that no Jewish person would enslave his brother.^{[b] 10} All the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant agreed^[c] that each would set his male and female slaves free so that they^[d] would not enslave them any longer. They obeyed and they released them. ¹¹ But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves that they had set free, and they forced them to become male and female slaves.