Deuteronomy 15:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it shall be, if he says to you, 'I will not go away from you,' because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

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  • Exod 21:5-6 : 5 And if the servant plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,' 6 then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened: burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.

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  • Deut 15:17-18
    2 verses
    83%

    17Then you shall take an awl, and pierce it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And also unto your maidservant, you shall do likewise.

    18It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

  • Exod 21:2-7
    6 verses
    82%

    2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free, without paying anything.

    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

    4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne 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 plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

    6then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

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

  • Deut 15:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12And if your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty.

    14You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

    15And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.

  • Lev 25:39-42
    4 verses
    75%

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

    40But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of Jubilee:

    41And then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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

  • Deut 23:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15You shall not deliver to his master the servant who has escaped from his master to you:

    16He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he chooses in one of your gates, where it pleases him best; you shall not oppress him.

  • Gen 24:8
    73%

    8And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there."

  • Num 10:32
    73%

    32And it shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good the LORD shall do to us, the same we will do to you.

  • Deut 11:13
    72%

    13And it shall come to pass, if you diligently listen to my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Exod 33:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15And he said to him, If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here.

    16For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found grace in your sight? is it not in that you go with us? so shall we be separate, I and your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

  • Lev 25:53-54
    2 verses
    72%

    53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

    54And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

  • Jer 34:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

    14At the end of seven years let every man set free his Hebrew brother, who has been sold to you; and when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

  • Gen 24:5
    72%

    5And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"

  • Deut 21:14
    72%

    14And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

  • Job 41:4
    71%

    4Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?

  • Deut 15:5
    71%

    5Only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.

  • Deut 24:18
    71%

    18But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    71%

    3And one said, Please be content, and go with your servants. And he answered, I will go.

  • Deut 30:20
    71%

    20That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

  • Deut 15:10
    71%

    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 shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

  • Gen 28:15
    71%

    15And behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done what I have spoken to you of.

  • Deut 24:22
    71%

    22And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

  • Exod 21:11
    71%

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

  • Lev 26:14
    71%

    14But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • Gen 24:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

    39And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

  • Deut 30:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.

    17But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Deut 16:12
    70%

    12And you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.

  • Deut 14:27
    70%

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you: he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Num 10:30
    70%

    30And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.

  • Exod 21:27
    70%

    27And if he knocks out his male servant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

  • Deut 6:18
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    18And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,

  • Exod 4:23
    70%

    23And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me, and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your son, even your firstborn.