Deuteronomy 15:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 25:39-42 : 39 ¶ And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
  • 1 Sam 1:22 : 22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.

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

    5And 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 the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

    8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

    9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

  • Deut 15:12-16
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    12¶ [And] if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an 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 sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

    14Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

    15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

    16And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

  • Deut 15:18
    82%

    18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

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

  • Lev 25:39-46
    8 verses
    75%

    39¶ And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

    41And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] 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, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

    43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

    44Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

    45Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

    46And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

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    26And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

    27And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

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    4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

  • Lev 25:53-54
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    53[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

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    14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.

    15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

    16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.

    17He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

  • Jer 34:14-15
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    14At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

    15And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

  • Deut 23:15-16
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    72%

    15¶ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

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    70%

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