Deuteronomy 15:16

American Standard Version (1901)

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:5-6 : 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

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    17then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise. [

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  • Exod 21:2-7
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    2If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

    3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

    5But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

    6then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

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    12If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

    13And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

    14thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

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    39And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

    40As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

    41then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

    42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

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    15Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant that is escaped from his master unto thee:

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    15And he said unto him, If thy presence go not [with me], carry us not up hence.

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    53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

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    13Thus saith Jehovah, 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 bondage, saying,

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    4Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

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    5if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

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    20to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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    10Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

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    15And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

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    22And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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    11And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

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