Jeremiah:34:8-22

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* The word that came to Jeremiah from LORD , after the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem , to proclaim liberty to them , * that every man should let his man-servant , and every man his maid-servant , who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess , go free , that none should make bondmen of them , [namely ], of a Jew his brother . * And all the rulers and all the people obeyed , who had entered into the covenant , that everyone should let his man-servant , and everyone his maid-servant , go free , that none should make bondmen of them any more . They obeyed , and let * 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 . * Therefore the word of LORD came to Jeremiah from LORD , saying , * Thus says LORD , 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 , * At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew , who has been sold to thee , and has served thee six years . Thou shall let him go free from thee . But your fathers hearkened not to me , nor inclined the * And ye were now turned , and had done that which is right in my eyes , in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor . And ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name . * But ye turned and profaned my name , and caused every man his servant , and every man his handmaid , whom ye had let go free at their pleasure , to return . And ye brought them into subjection , to be to you for servants and for handmaid * Therefore thus says LORD : Ye have not hearkened to me , to proclaim liberty , every man to his brother , and every man to his neighbor . Behold , I proclaim to you a liberty , says LORD--to the sword , to the pestilence , and to the famine * And 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 , * the rulers of Judah , and the rulers of Jerusalem , the eunuchs , and the priests , and all the people of the land , who passed between the parts of the calf , * 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 heavens , and to the beasts of the earth . * And I will give Zedekiah king of Judah , and his rulers , 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 that has gone away from you . * Behold , I will command , says LORD , and cause them to return to this city . And they shall fight against it , and take it , and burn it with fire . And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation , without inhabitant .

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