Deuteronomy 15:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; 40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.
  • 1 Sam 1:22 : 22 But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Exod 21:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

    5But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:

    6Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

    8If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

    9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

  • Deut 15:12-16
    5 verses
    83%

    12If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

    13And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:

    14But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

    15And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

    16But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

  • Deut 15:18
    82%

    18Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:2
    78%

    2If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • Lev 25:39-46
    8 verses
    75%

    39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

    41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

    42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

    43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

    44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

    45And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

    46And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

  • Exod 21:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.

    27Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.

  • Job 41:4
    74%

    4Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    73%

    53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

  • 1 Sam 8:14-17
    4 verses
    73%

    14He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

    15He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

    16He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

    17He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

  • Jer 34:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.

    15And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:

  • Deut 23:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

    16Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.

  • Exod 21:20
    72%

    20If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

  • Deut 21:14
    72%

    14But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.

  • Exod 12:44
    72%

    44But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

  • Exod 21:32
    71%

    32If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

  • Lev 25:50
    70%

    50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

  • Gen 17:13
    70%

    13He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

  • Deut 16:12
    70%

    12And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

  • Jer 34:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9That every man was to let his Hebrew man-servant and his Hebrew servant-girl go free; so that no one might make use of a Jew, his countryman, as a servant:

    10And this was done by all the rulers and the people who had taken part in the agreement, and every one let his man-servant and his servant-girl go free, not to be used as servants any longer; they did so, and let them go.

    11But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

  • Deut 24:14
    70%

    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Ps 116:16
    70%

    16O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

  • Deut 24:22
    70%

    22Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

  • Deut 24:18
    70%

    18But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

  • Luke 17:8
    69%

    8Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?

  • Exod 12:25
    69%

    25And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.