Exodus 21:5
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 15:16-17 : 16 It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you; 17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
- 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
- Isa 26:13 : 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
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- Exod 21:2-43 verses87%
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exod 21:6-116 verses83%
6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
8 If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
11 If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
- Deut 15:16-183 verses82%
16 It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Exod 21:26-272 verses76%
26 "If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
- Lev 25:39-424 verses76%
39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
- Lev 25:53-553 verses75%
53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
54 "'If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
- Deut 15:12-132 verses74%
12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
- Exod 21:20-212 verses72%
20 "If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.
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15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:
- Jer 34:13-142 verses72%
13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
- Deut 21:14-152 verses72%
14 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 deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
- Jer 34:9-113 verses71%
9 that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.
10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his man-servant, and everyone his maid-servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
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23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"
- Matt 18:25-262 verses71%
25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
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21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
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16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
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22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
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5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
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21 He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
- John 8:35-362 verses69%
35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
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51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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13 "If I have despised the cause of my man-servant Or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
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32 If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
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4 Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?
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33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
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9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
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26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."