Job 41:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Job 41:3

Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?

Job 41:5

Will you play with it as with a bird or put it on a leash for your young women?

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him before God. He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him for life.

Deuteronomy 15:17

then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his earlobe into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. “You shall do the same with regard to your female slave.

1 Samuel 11:1

About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”