Exodus 21:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁶ his master is to bring him to the judges  and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Then his master shall bring him to God [the judges as His agents]; he shall bring him to the door or doorpost and shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

Common English Bible

⁶ then his master will bring him before God. He will bring him to the door or the doorpost. There his master will pierce his ear with a pointed tool, and he will serve him as his slave for life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl. And he shall be his servant for ever.

Exodus 21:6 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:7

They replied, ‘Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants for ever.’

Exodus 12:12

‘I will pass through  the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the Lord; I will execute judgements against all the gods of Egypt.

Exodus 21:22

‘When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands  from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

Exodus 21:5

‘But if the slave declares, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,”

Exodus 21:7

‘When a man sells his daughter as a concubine,  she is not to leave as the male slaves do.

Exodus 22:28

‘You must not blaspheme God  or curse a leader among your people.

Isaiah 1:26

I will restore your judges  to what they were at first, and your advisers to what they were at the start. Afterwards you will be called the Righteous City, a Faithful Town.’

Leviticus 25:23

‘The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on my land.  ,

Leviticus 25:40

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Zephaniah 3:3

The  princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for   the morning.

Deuteronomy 1:16

I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or his resident foreigner.

Deuteronomy 15:16

But if your slave says to you, “I don’t want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family, and is well off with you,

Deuteronomy 15:17

take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.

Deuteronomy 16:18

‘Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgement.

1 Samuel 1:22

Hannah did not go and explained to her husband, ‘After the child is weaned, I’ll take him to appear in the Lord’s presence  and to stay there permanently.’

1 Samuel 27:12

So Achish trusted David, thinking, ‘Since he has made himself repulsive to his people Israel, he will be my servant for ever.’

1 Samuel 28:2

David replied to Achish, ‘Good, you will find out what your servant can do.’ So Achish said to David, ‘Very well, I will appoint you as my permanent bodyguard.’