Passage

Freedom recalled in the covenant

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹³“The LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying:

Jeremiah 34:13World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The word given to Jeremiah recalls the covenant made when God brought the ancestors out of Egypt.

To understand

Their release from bondage is recalled alongside the rule to release a fellow Hebrew after six years of service. The passage says the ancestors did not listen.

A question

Which earlier deliverance frames the instruction to release a servant?