Exodus 21:6

Modern English Version

then his master will bring him to the judges, then he shall also 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 forever.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:7

And they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people this day and will serve them and answer them and speak kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Psalm 82:1

God has taken His place in the divine council; He renders judgment among the gods.

Exodus 12:12

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Exodus 21:22

If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her child is born prematurely, yet there is no serious injury, then he shall be surely punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:5

However, if the servant plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free,”

Exodus 21:7

If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

Exodus 22:28

You shall not curse God or curse the ruler of your people.

Isaiah 1:26

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be permanently sold, for the land is Mine, for you are foreigners and sojourners with Me.

Leviticus 25:40

But as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with you. He shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Deuteronomy 1:16

I charged your judges at that time, saying, “Hear the issues between your countrymen, and judge righteously between every man and his fellow countryman, and the foreigner that is with him.

Deuteronomy 15:16

It shall be, if he says to you, “I will not go away from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well off with you,

Deuteronomy 15:17

then you must take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. And you shall also do likewise to your female servant.

Deuteronomy 16:18

You must appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, throughout your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

1 Samuel 1:22

But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, “I will not go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and live there forever.”

1 Samuel 27:12

And Achish believed David, saying, “He has surely become a stench to his people Israel. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”

1 Samuel 28:2

David said to Achish, “Surely you will know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Therefore I will appoint you my bodyguard for life.”