Study it in the app“And all the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant that each should let his slave and each his slave woman go free, so as not to keep them as slaves any longer; they obeyed and let them go.”
And allוַ כָלthe princesהַשָּׂרִיםand allוְכָלthe peopleהָעָםobeyed,יִּשְׁמְעוּwhoאֲשֶׁרhad enteredבָּאוּinto the covenantבַבְּרִיתthat eachלְ אִישׁshould letשַׁלַּחhis slaveאֶת עַבְדּוֹand eachוְאִישׁhis slave womanאֶת שִׁפְחָתוֹgo free,חָפְשִׁיםso as notלְבִלְתִּיto keep them as slavesעֲבָד בָּםany longer;עוֹדthey obeyedוַיִּשְׁמְעוּandוַlet them go.יְשַׁלֵּחוּ
chief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sarim” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsobey
To obey: "listen to the voice" of someone.
Where else “yishmu” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “bau” appearscovenant
The commitment God makes with his people, with promises and commands.
Where else “berit” appearseach
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appearslet go
To set free, release.
Where else “shalach” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avd” appearsfemale slave, servant
Female slave, maidservant in the service of the lady of the house.
Where else “shifchat” appearsfree
Free: no longer a slave; also free from duties.
Where else “chafshim” appearsenslave
To make others serve, enslave.
Where else “avad” appears9that each should let his slave and each his slave woman, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, go free, so that no one should keep them as slaves, a Jew, his brother.
10 · This verse (above)
11But afterward they turned back, and brought back the slaves and the slave women whom they had let go free, and subjected them to be slaves and slave women.
