Jer 34:18 | JFB | STEP | 18. passed between the parts thereof —The contracting parties in the "covenant" (not here the law in general, but their covenant made before God in His house to emancipate their slaves, ) passed through the parts of the animal cut in two, implying that they prayed so to be cut in sunder ( ; Greek, "cut in two") if they should break the covenant ( ).

Jeremiah 34:18

18. passed between the parts thereof—The contracting parties in the "covenant" (not here the law in general, but their covenant made before God in His house to emancipate their slaves, Jer 34:8, 9) passed through the parts of the animal cut in two, implying that they prayed so to be cut in sunder (Mt 24:51; Greek, "cut in two") if they should break the covenant (Ge 15:10, 17).