11. afterward they took back their male and female servants whom they had set free and again forced them into servitude.
12. Then this word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
13. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your ancestors the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery:
14. Every seventh year each of you must set free all Hebrews who have sold themselves to you; six years they shall serve you, but then you shall let them go free. Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or obey me.