Deuteronomy 15:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 2 But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ then you may take a needle and pierce his ear with it into the doorframe. From that point on, he will be your permanent servant. Do the same thing for female servants.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and pierce his ear, at the door of your house. And he shall serve you even forever. You shall also act similarly toward your woman servant.

Deuteronomy 15:17 Cross References

Exodus 21:5

If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Exodus 21:6

But if he have betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Deuteronomy 15:16

1 But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 15:18

3 Only thou shalt take heed not to eat their blood, but pour it out on the earth as water.

1 Samuel 1:22

7 For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him.