9. Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.
10. So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
11. But afterwards they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.
12. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
13. ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,