Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Ver. 13. I made a covenant with your fathers.] Heb., I cut a covenant. See Jeremiah 34:18 .
Out of the house of bondmen.] Such were you when there; why then should you pull up the bridge before others which yourselves have gone over? make slaves of those whom God had made free? Leviticus 25:39 ; Lev 25:42