Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
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Interpretation
A Jew should not be held in servitude above seven years. This law they and their fathers had broken.
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This thought runs through Jeremiah 34:8-11.