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Jeremiah 34:8

“After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD”

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⁶In Jerusalem, then, Jeremiah the prophet relayed all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah

⁷As the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.

⁸After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD

⁹That each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.

¹⁰So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,

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