“that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.”
— WEB
Jeremiah 34:9
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“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.”
— KJV
“that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.”
— ASV
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Commentary
none . . . serve himself of a Jew-- (Lev 25:39-46).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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