Verse 10
Jeremiah 34:10
World English Bible, British Edition
10
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 no one
should make bondservants of them any more. They obeyed and let them go,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ כָל הַ/שָּׂרִ֨ים וְ/כָל הָ/עָ֜ם אֲשֶׁר בָּ֣אוּ בַ/בְּרִ֗ית לְ֠/שַׁלַּח אִ֣ישׁ אֶת עַבְדּ֞/וֹ וְ/אִ֤ישׁ אֶת שִׁפְחָת/וֹ֙ חָפְשִׁ֔ים לְ/בִלְתִּ֥י עֲבָד בָּ֖/ם ע֑וֹד וַֽ/יִּשְׁמְע֖וּ וַ/יְשַׁלֵּֽחוּ
English Translation
And all the officials and all the people who came into the covenant to let each man send away his servant and each man his maid free, so that no one would be a servant to them anymore, they listened and they let them go.
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Chapter 34 Context
1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, with all his arm...
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2
“The LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of
Judah, and tell him,...
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3
You won’t escape out of his hand, but will surely be taken and delivered
into his hand. Your eyes wi...
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4
“Yet hear the LORD’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah. The LORD
says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by...
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5
You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former
kings who were before you,...
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6
Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king
of Judah in Jerusalem,
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7
when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem and against
all the cities of Judah t...
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8
The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had
made a covenant with all the people...
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9
that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female
servant, who is a Hebrew or a H...
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10
All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the
covenant, that everyone should le...
11
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids
whom they had let go free to r...
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12
Therefore the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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13
“The LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers
in the day that I...
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14
At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother
who is a Hebrew, who has been...
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15
You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in
every man proclaiming liberty to...
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16
but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant
and every man his handmaid, wh...
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17
Therefore the LORD says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim
liberty, every man to his brother...
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18
I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not
performed the words of the coven...
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19
the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests,
and all the people of the...
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20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand
of those who seek their life....
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21
“I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the
hands of their enemies, into the hands...
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22
Behold, I will command,” says the LORD, “and cause them to return to
this city. They will fight agai...
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