Jeremiah 34:11
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
In context
9 that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
10 So 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,
11 but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
13 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
Jeremiah 34:11 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
- KJV King James Version
- But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- WEB World English Bible
- but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- ASV American Standard Version
- but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants.
- DBY Darby Translation
- But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had liberated, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.