8. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,
9. that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.
10. And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.
11. But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.
12. The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
13. “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,