Job 41:4

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Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:6 : 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.
  • Deut 15:17 : 17 you 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).
  • 1 Kgs 20:31-34 : 31 His advisers said to him,“Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.” 32 So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said,“Your servant Ben Hadad says,‘Please let me live!’” Ahab replied,“Is he still alive? He is my brother.” 33 The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying,“Ben Hadad is your brother.” Ahab then said,“Go, get him.” So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot. 34 Ben Hadad said,“I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab then said,“I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you.” So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.
  • Ps 8:5-6 : 5 You made them a little less than the heavenly beings. You crowned mankind with honor and majesty. 6 you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

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    5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

    6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

    7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • Job 41:1-3
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    2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

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  • Deut 15:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16However, 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,

    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).

  • Job 22:4-5
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    4Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

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  • Job 39:9-12
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    9Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

    10Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

    11Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

    12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

  • Lev 25:53
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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.

  • Lev 25:40-42
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    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.

  • Exod 21:4-6
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
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    16He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

    17He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

  • Ps 21:4
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    4He asked you to sustain his life, and you have granted him long life and an enduring dynasty.

  • Exod 21:2
    69%

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  • Job 13:8
    68%

    8Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

  • 1 Kgs 12:7
    68%

    7They said to him,“Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request, speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

  • Jer 3:5
    68%

    5You will not always be angry with me, will you? You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ That is what you say, but you continually do all the evil that you can.”

  • Job 38:39
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    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

  • Gen 44:32-33
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    32Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’

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  • Prov 29:21
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    21If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

  • Lev 25:44
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    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

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    7I asked,“Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?

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    67%

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

  • Job 17:3
    67%

    3Set my pledge beside you. Who else will put up security for me?

  • Job 27:10
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  • Job 18:4
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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • Gen 44:7
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    7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

  • Prov 22:27
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    27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • Gen 30:31
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  • Luke 17:8
    67%

    8Won’t the master instead say to him,‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

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    67%

    23For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

  • Hos 2:19
    67%

    19I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.

  • Deut 29:14
    67%

    14It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

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    67%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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    67%

    60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.