Jer 34:10-11 | ESV | STEP | And they obeyed , all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave , male or female , so that they would not be enslaved again . They obeyed and set them free .

a[See ver. 9 above]

Jeremiah 34:10-11

10 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. 11 But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves ^athey had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.