Deuteronomy 15:17 Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:17
17: In that case, take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door. After that, he will be your servant for life. "You must do the same for your female servants.
Leviticus 25:39
- "If any of your Israelite relatives go bankrupt and sell themselves to you, do not treat them as slaves.
- Treat them instead as hired servants or as resident foreigners who live with you, and they will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.
- At that time they and their children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clan and ancestral property.
- The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.
1 Samuel 1:22
- But Hannah did not go. She told her husband, "Wait until the baby is weaned. Then I will take him to the Tabernacle and leave him there with the LORD permanently."