Deuteronomy 15:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

However, if the servant says to you,“I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:5-6 : 5 But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

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    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • Exod 21:2-7
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    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

    3If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.

    4If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.

    5But if the servant should declare,‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

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

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • Deut 15:12-15
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    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

    13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.

    14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

    15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you to do this thing today.

  • Lev 25:39-42
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    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

    40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

    42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

  • Deut 23:15-16
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    15Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.

    16Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

  • Gen 24:8
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    8But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

  • Num 10:32
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    32And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the LORD will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

  • Deut 11:13
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    13Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the LORD your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

  • Exod 33:15-16
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    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

    16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

  • Lev 25:53-54
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    53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

    54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

  • Jer 34:13-14
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    13“The LORD God of Israel has a message for you.‘I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves. It stipulated,

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  • Gen 24:5
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    5The servant asked him,“What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

  • Deut 21:14
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    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Job 41:4
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    4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

  • Deut 15:5
    71%

    5if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

  • Deut 24:18
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    18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
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    3One of them said,“Please come along with your servants.” He replied,“All right, I’ll come.”

  • Deut 30:20
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    20I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

  • Deut 15:10
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    10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

  • Gen 28:15
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    15I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

  • Deut 24:22
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    22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.

  • Exod 21:11
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    11If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.

  • Lev 26:14
    71%

    14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–

  • Gen 24:38-39
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    38but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’

    39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’

  • Deut 30:16-17
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    16What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

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  • Deut 16:12
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    12Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

  • Num 10:30
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    30But Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

  • Exod 21:27
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    27If he knocks out the tooth of his male servant or his female servant, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

  • Deut 6:18
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    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

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    23and I said to you,‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”