Deuteronomy 15:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ then you are to take an awl and put it through his ear to the door, and he will be your servant forever. And to your female slave you are to do the same.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then take an awl and pierce his ear through to the door, and he shall be your servant always. And also to your bondwoman you shall do likewise.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ then you may take a needle and pierce his ear with it into the doorframe. From that point on, he will be your permanent servant. Do the same thing for female servants.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and pierce his ear, at the door of your house. And he shall serve you even forever. You shall also act similarly toward your woman servant.

Deuteronomy 15:17 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 21:5

“But if the servant plainly states, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children, and I will not go out free,’

Exodus 21:6

then his master is to bring him to God, then take him to a door or to a doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

Deuteronomy 15:16

“Now if he tells you, ‘I will not go away from you’—because he loves you and your household since he is well off with you—

Deuteronomy 15:18

It should not seem hard to you when you set him free from you, for he has served you six years—double the value of a hired worker. So Adonai your God will bless you in all that you do.

1 Samuel 1:22

Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “When the child is weaned, I will bring him, so he may appear before Adonai and stay there forever.”