Verse 9
Jeremiah 34:9
World English Bible
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that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ֠/שַׁלַּח אִ֣ישׁ אֶת עַבְדּ֞/וֹ וְ/אִ֧ישׁ אֶת שִׁפְחָת֛/וֹ הָ/עִבְרִ֥י וְ/הָ/עִבְרִיָּ֖ה חָפְשִׁ֑ים לְ/בִלְתִּ֧י עֲבָד בָּ֛/ם בִּ/יהוּדִ֥י אָחִ֖י/הוּ אִֽישׁ
English Translation
To send away a man his servant and a man his maidservant, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, free, so that they do not serve as slaves to a Jewish brother.
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Chapter 34 Context
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The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army,...
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“Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, ‘Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Y...
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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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“Yet hear Yahweh’s word, O Zedekiah king of Judah: Yahweh says concerning you, ‘You won’t die by the...
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You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you,...
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Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
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when the king of Babylon’s army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah...
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The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people w...
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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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All the princes and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should le...
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but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to...
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Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
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13
“Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I br...
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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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but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, w...
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Therefore Yahweh 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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the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the...
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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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Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight agains...
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