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 you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
• Lev 25:40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
• Deut 19:17–18then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
• 1 Sam 28:2David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
• 1 Sam 1:22But Hannah didn’t go up; for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and stay there forever.”
• Lev 25:23“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
• Exod 22:8–9If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn’t put his hand to his neighbor’s goods.
• Exod 18:21–26Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• 1 Sam 8:1–2When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
• Exod 22:28“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
• Deut 1:16I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
• Zeph 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
• Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
• Num 25:5–8Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
• Deut 16:18You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Exod 12:12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
• Exod 21:22“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
• 1 Kgs 12:7They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
• 1 Sam 27:12Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”
• Isa 1:26I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

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