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Jeremiah 34:9

that each one should release his man servant, and each one his woman servant, as a free Hebrew man and a free Hebrew woman, and that they should never be rulers over them, that is, over the Jews, their own brothers
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King James Version

That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

English Standard Version

that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.

New International Version

Everyone was to free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Jew in bondage.