Deuteronomy 15:17

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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 female servant you shall do likewise.

Cross References

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;'

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

Deuteronomy 15:16

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;

Deuteronomy 15:18

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 the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

1 Samuel 1:22

But Channah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide forever.