Exodus 21:6

New English Translation

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:7

They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.”

Psalm 82:1

God stands in the assembly of El; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.

Exodus 12:12

I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Exodus 21:22

“If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

Exodus 21:5

But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

Exodus 21:7

“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

Exodus 22:28

“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

Isaiah 1:26

I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. Then you will be called, ‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’”

Leviticus 25:23

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

Leviticus 25:40

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

Deuteronomy 1:16

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

Deuteronomy 15:16

However, 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,

Deuteronomy 15:17

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).

Deuteronomy 16:18

You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the Lord your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.

1 Samuel 1:22

but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

1 Samuel 27:12

So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, “He is really hated among his own people in Israel! From now on he will be my servant.”

1 Samuel 28:2

David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard from now on.”