10. All the officials and all the people agreed and promised to free their male and female slaves and not to keep them as slaves anymore. So they set them free.
11. But afterwards, they changed their minds and took back the men and women they had freed and made them their slaves again.
12. The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah. He said,
13. “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I put a condition on the promise I made to your ancestors when I brought them from Egypt, where they were slaves. I said,