Jeremiah 34:11-13

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¹¹But after that,^[a] the people who had slaves changed their minds. So they took the people they had set free and made them slaves again.

¹²Then this message from the Lord came to Jeremiah: ¹³“This is what the Lord, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, where they were slaves. When I did that, I made an agreement with them.

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Jeremiah 34:11 after that In the summer of 588 B.C., the Egyptian army came to help the people of Jerusalem. So the Babylonian army had to leave Jerusalem for a short time to fight the Egyptians. The people of Jerusalem thought God had helped them, and things were back to normal, so they didn’t keep their promise. They took the slaves they had set free back into slavery.