¹⁰ Even I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending them money and grain. Please, let’s stop charging this interest.^{[a] 11} Return their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses to them immediately, along with the percentage^[b] of the money, grain, new wine, and fresh oil^(A) that you have been assessing them.”

¹² They responded, “We will return these things and require nothing more from them.^(B) We will do as you say.”

So I summoned the priests and made everyone take an oath^(C) to do this.

The People and Their Slaves

⁸ This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom^(A) to them.