Nehemiah 5:10-12
10 And likewise I, my brothers, and my young men are lending them money and grain. Please, let us forsake this usury. 11 Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.” 12 Then they said, “We awill give it back and bwill require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you are saying.” So I called the priests and cmade them swear that they would do according to this word.
Jeremiah 34:9-11
9 that each man should let his male slave go free and each man his female slave, a aHebrew man or a Hebrew woman, so that bno one should enslave them, each being a Jew, his brother. 10 And all the aofficials and all the people obeyed who had entered into the covenant that each man should let his male slave go free and each man his female slave, so that no one should enslave them any longer; they obeyed and let them go free. 11 But afterwards they turned around and returned to themselves the male slaves and the female slaves, whom they had let go as free, and subdued them to be male slaves and female slaves.
Jeremiah 34:14
14 “aAt the end of seven years each of you shall let his Hebrew brother go who has been sold to you and has served you six years, and you shall let him go to be free from you; but your fathers bdid not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.
Jeremiah 34:16
16 Yet you aturned and bprofaned My name, and each man returned to themselves his male slave and each man his female slave whom you had let go as free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be your male slaves and female slaves.”’
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