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Deuteronomy 15:16-18
Lexham English Bible
Deuteronomy 15:16-18
Lexham English Bible
16 And then if it will happen that he says to you, ‘I do not want to go out[a] from you,’ because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; 17 then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you a slave forever;[b] and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. 18 It shall not be hard in your eyes when you send him forth free,[c] because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you will do.[d]
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- Deuteronomy 15:16 Literally “I will not go out”
- Deuteronomy 15:17 Literally “a slave of eternity”
- Deuteronomy 15:18 Literally “in/at you to send him forth free from being with you”
- Deuteronomy 15:18 Literally “in all of that you will do”
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