Deuteronomy 15:17 - English Standard Version 2016

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

Matoleo zaidi

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever. Thou shalt do in like manner to thy woman-servant also.

Deuteronomy 15:17 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Exodus 21:5

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Deuteronomy 15:16

But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

1 Samuel 1:22

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord and dwell there forever.”