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Ulangan 15:17

maka engkau harus mengambil sebuah penusuk dan menindik telinganya pada pintu, sehingga ia menjadi budakmu untuk selama-lamanya. Demikian juga kauperbuat kepada budakmu perempuan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Awl;   Beneficence;   Liberality;   Sabbatic Year;   Servant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ear, the;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Servant;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sabbatical year;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hear, Hearing;   Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Awl;   Freedom;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Awl;   Loan;   Slave;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Awl;   Ear;   Freedom;   Slave/servant;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Awl;   Crimes and Punishments;   Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Sabbatical Year;   Slave, Slavery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ear;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Awl;   Ear;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Door;   Ear;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Awl;   Bore;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Law in the Old Testament;   Oded;   Sabbatical Year;   Slave;   Tools;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Awl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Slaves and Slavery;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
maka engkau harus mengambil sebuah penusuk dan menindik telinganya pada pintu, sehingga ia menjadi budakmu untuk selama-lamanya. Demikian juga kauperbuat kepada budakmu perempuan.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
maka hendaklah engkau mengambil pusut, lalu menindik dengan dia telinganya kepada pintu, maka tinggallah ia hambamu seumur hidupnya, maka akan sahayamu perempuanpun hendaklah kamu berbuat demikian.

Contextual Overview

12 If thy brother an Hebrue sell hym selfe to thee, or an Hebrue woman, and serue thee sixe yeres, in the seuenth yere thou shalt let hym go free from thee. 13 And when thou sendest hym out free from thee, thou shalt not let hym go away emptie: 14 But shalt geue hym of thy sheepe, of thy corne, and of thy wine, and geue hym of that wherwith the Lorde thy God hath blessed thee. 15 And remember that thou wast a seruaunt in the lande of Egypt, and the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence: and therfore I commaunde thee this thyng to day. 16 And if he say vnto thee, I wyll not go away from thee: because he loueth thee and thine house, and is well at ease with thee: 17 Then shalt thou take an aule, & nayle his eare to the doore therwith, and let hym be thy seruaunt for euer: And vnto thy mayde seruaunt thou shalt do likewise. 18 And let it not greeue thine eye, when thou lettest him go out free fro thee, for he hath ben worth a double hired seruaunt to thee in his seruice sixe yeres: And the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all that thou doest.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for ever: Leviticus 25:39-42, 1 Samuel 1:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 21:5 - And if Exodus 21:6 - for ever Job 41:4 - a servant

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram sayde: Lorde God what wylt thou geue me when I go chyldelesse, the chylde of the stewardship of my house is this Eleazer of Damasco?
Genesis 15:3
And Abram saide: See, to me thou hast geuen no seede: lo [borne] in my house is myne heire.
Genesis 15:18
In that same day the Lorde made a couenaunt with Abram, saying: vnto thy seede haue I geuen this lande, fro the ryuer of Egypt, euen vnto the great ryuer, the ryuer of Euphrates.
Genesis 15:19
The Kenites and the Kenizites, and the Cadmonites,
Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lorde hath taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, euen out of Egypt, to be vnto hym a people & inheritaunce, as ye be this day.
Judges 6:21
Then the angel of the Lord put foorth the end of the staffe that he helde in his hande, and touched the fleshe and the sweete cakes, and there arose vp fire out of the rocke, and consumed the flesh and the sweete cakes: But the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
Judges 13:20
And whe the flambe came vp toward heauen from the aulter, the angell of the Lorde ascended vp in the flambe of the aulter: And Manoah and his wyfe loked vpon it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went out at his nosthryls, & consuming fyre out of his mouth: coles were kindled thereat.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And Dauid buylt there an aulter vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and called vpon the Lorde, and he hearde him from heauen in fire vpon the aulter of burnt offring.
Isaiah 62:1
For Sions sake wyll I not holde my tongue, and for Hierusalems sake I wyll not ceasse, vntill their righteousnesse breake foorth as the shining light, and their saluation as a burning lampe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door,.... Not of his master's house, but of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, according to the Targum of Jonathan, before whom he was to be brought, and declare his desire to continue with his master; :-,

and he shall be thy servant for ever; that is, unto the jubilee, as the same Targum; for then all servants were released, and so Jarchi calls it the ever of jubilee:

and also unto thy maidservant thou shall do likewise; not bore her ear, for, as both Jarchi and Aben Ezra, and others say, she was not to be bored; though some are of opinion that a maidservant who was willing to continue with her master was to be bored as a manservant; but this respects the manner of dismissing her, or letting her go free, when she was not to go empty, but to be liberally furnished and supplied, as a manservant was.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The commands here are repeated from Exodus 21:2-6, with amplifications relative to the maidservant Deuteronomy 15:12 and to the making (Deuteronomy 15:13 ff) liberal provision for launching the freedman on an independent course of life. The release of the servant is connected with the sabbatical principle though not with the sabbatical year. It is noteworthy also that the prospect of a gift of this sort, the amount of which was left to the master’s discretion, would be likely to encourage diligence and faithfulness during the years of servitude.

Deuteronomy 15:18

He hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years - “i. e.” such a servant has earned twice as much as a common hired laborer would have done in the same time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 15:17. Thou shalt take an awlExodus 21:6.


 
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