That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
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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.
Glossary
- Jew Tribe
- The name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah.