Jeremiah 34:11

Freedom for Hebrew Slaves

10So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,11but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.

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Berean Standard Bible
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
American Standard Version (1901)
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Bible in Basic English
But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.
Douay-Rheims 1899
But afterwards they turned: and brought back again their servants and their handmaids, whom they had let go free, and brought them into subjection as menservants and maidservants.
Free Bible Version
However, later on they changed their minds and took back the male and female slaves they'd freed, forcing them back into slavery.
Geneva Bible 1599
But afterwarde they repented and caused the seruants and the handmayds, whom they had let go free, to returne, and helde them in subiection as seruants and handmayds.
King James (Authorized) Version
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Translation for Translators
but later they changed their minds. They forced the men and women whom they had freed to become their slaves again.
Unlocked Literal Bible
But after this they changed their minds. They brought back the slaves whom they had freed. They forced them to become slaves again.
Noah Webster Bible
But afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had liberated, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
World English Bible
but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids whom they had let go free to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Young's Literal Translation
and they turn afterwards, and cause the men-servants and the maid-servants to return, whom they had sent forth free, and they subdue them for men-servants and for maid-servants.