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Jeremiah 34 General Notes
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Law of Moses
According to the law of Moses, the people were required to free their indebted slaves after a period of time. The king led them in freeing their fellow Israelites whom they held as slaves, but later they changed their minds and enslaved them again. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/lawofmoses and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin)
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Actions with cultural meaning
When the people of Israel made a sacred promise to God, they cut a calf in two and passed between its parts. It was a very serious sin not to do what one had promised. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/promise and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)