Jeremiah 34:8-10

The Voice

⁸ Now as the siege continued and the conditions became more severe, another message came to Jeremiah from the Eternal after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with the citizens of Jerusalem to free the slaves in the city. ⁹ The king commanded all those who held Hebrew slaves to release them—both men and women—so that no Jew would hold a fellow Jew in slavery. ¹⁰ So all the leaders and people of the city entered this covenant and agreed with the king to free all of their Hebrew slaves.