Deuteronomy 15:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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, 17 then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his earlobe into the door, and he shall be your slave[a] forever.
You shall do the same with regard to your female slave.[b]
18 Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers; and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.
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- Deuteronomy 15:17 Or bondman
- Deuteronomy 15:17 Or bondwoman
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