Deuteronomy 15:16

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But if they say to you, 'I will not leave you,' because they love you and your household and are well off with you,

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  • Exod 21:5-6 : 5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master shall bring him before God. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
  • Ps 40:6 : 6 You, LORD my God, have done many wonderful works, and Your plans are beyond comparison. If I tried to declare and speak of them, they are too numerous to count.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'

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  • Deut 15:17-18
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    17then take an awl and pierce their ear to the door, and they will become your servant for life. You shall do the same for your female servant.

    18Do not consider it hard to set them free, because their service to you for six years was worth twice as much as that of a hired worker, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:2-7
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    82%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he shall go free, without any payment.

    3If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; but if he is married, then his wife shall leave with him.

    4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself.

    5But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to go free,’

    6then his master shall bring him before God. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.

    7If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.

  • Deut 15:12-15
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    12If your brother, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year, you must set them free.

    13And when you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed.

    14Provide them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

    15Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.

  • Lev 25:39-42
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    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

    40They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

    41Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

    42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

  • Deut 23:15-16
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    15For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies into your hands. Your camp must be holy so that He will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

    16Do not hand over a slave who has escaped from his master and taken refuge with you.

  • Gen 24:8
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    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Num 10:32
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    32If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives to us."

  • Deut 11:13
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    13If you indeed obey my commandments that I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul—

  • Exod 33:15-16
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    15Then Moses said to Him, 'If Your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.'

    16For how will anyone know that You are pleased with me and with Your people unless You go with us? What else will distinguish me and Your people from all the other peoples on the face of the earth?

  • Lev 25:53-54
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    53They are to be treated as a yearly hired worker while with their buyer, and they must not be ruled over harshly in your sight.

    54If they are not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee.

  • Jer 34:13-14
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    13This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:

    14At the end of seven years, each of you must set free your Hebrew brothers who have been sold to you and have served you for six years. You must release them to go free. But your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me.

  • Gen 24:5
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    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?"

  • Deut 21:14
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    14But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Job 41:4
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    4I will not keep silent about his limbs, his mighty strength, or his graceful form.

  • Deut 15:5
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    5If only you carefully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being diligent to observe all these commandments that I am commanding you today.

  • Deut 24:18
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    18Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
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    3Then one of them said, "Please come with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."

  • Deut 30:20
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    20loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice, and holding fast to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give them.

  • Deut 15:10
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    10You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you undertake.

  • Gen 28:15
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    15Look, I am with you, and I will guard you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, because I will not leave you until I have done everything I promised you.

  • Deut 24:22
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    22Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

  • Exod 21:11
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    11If he does not provide these three things for her, she is to go free, without any payment.

  • Lev 26:14
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    14But if you will not listen to me and will not carry out all these commandments,

  • Gen 24:38-39
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    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

    39Then I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not come back with me?'

  • Deut 30:16-17
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    70%

    16For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, so that you may live and multiply, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

    17But if your heart turns away and you do not obey, and if you are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

  • Deut 16:12
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    12Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these decrees.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27And do not neglect the Levite living in your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land—your grain, your new wine, and your fresh oil—the young of your livestock and the calves of your herds in the land that He swore to your ancestors to give you.

  • Num 10:30
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    30But he replied to him, "I will not go; I am going back to my own land and to my relatives."

  • Exod 21:27
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    27And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he must let the servant go free in compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 6:18
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    18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.

  • Exod 4:23
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    23and I told you to let my son go so he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. So I will kill your firstborn son.'