¹⁶ Yet you ^(A)turned and ^(B)profaned My name, and each man ^[a]returned to themselves his male slave and each man his female slave whom you had let go as free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be your male slaves and female slaves.”’

¹⁷ “Therefore thus says Yahweh, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming ^[b]release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am ^(C)proclaiming a ^[c]release to you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘to the ^(D)sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you a ^(E)terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ¹⁸ And I will give the men who have ^(F)trespassed against My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant which they cut before Me, when they ^(G)cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—