Exodus 21:6

The willing servant's ear was pierced at the doorpost, marking him as his master's servant forever. A permanent sign sealed his chosen, lifelong devotion.

Cross-references · 20

• Deut 15:17then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
• Lev 25:40Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
• Deut 19:17–18both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.
• 1 Sam 28:2David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
• 1 Sam 1:22but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
• Lev 25:23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
• Exod 22:8–9If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.
• Exod 18:21–26Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
• 1 Sam 8:1–2When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
• Exod 22:28You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
• Deut 1:16At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
• Zeph 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
• Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
• Num 25:5–8So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.”
• Deut 16:18You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Exod 12:12On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
• Exod 21:22If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
• 1 Kgs 12:7They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
• 1 Sam 27:12So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”
• Isa 1:26I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

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