10 So 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,
Jeremiah 34:10
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Jeremiah 34:15–17
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Odes of Solomon 17:10–12
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Deuteronomy 15:11–13
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1 Maccabees 6:60–62
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2 Chronicles 34:31–33
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Leviticus 25:41–43
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1 Esdras 4:52–54
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