Exodus 21:6
then shall his lord bring him near unto God, and shall bring him near unto the door, or unto the door-post,—and his lord shall pierce his ear with an awl, so shall he serve him all his life.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Exodus 12:12I will pass along, therefore, throughout the land of Egypt this night, and will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man even to beast,—and against all the gods of Egypt, will I execute judgments—I, Yahweh.
Exodus 21:22And when men strive together and push against a woman with child, and she miscarry, but there is no other mischief, he shall, surely be fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him, but he shall give it through judges.
Exodus 22:28God, shalt thou not revile,—and a prince among thy people, shalt thou not curse.
Leviticus 25:40as a hired servant, as a settler, shall he remain with thee,—until the year of the jubilee, shall he serve with thee:
Deuteronomy 1:16And I charged your judges, at that time, saying,—Ye are to hear between your brethren and shall judge righteously, between each man and his brother and his sojourner.
Deuteronomy 16:18Judges and officers, shalt thou appoint thee in all thy gates, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee, by thy tribes,—and they shall judge the people, with righteous judgment,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:2-12
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant shall plainly say,… Read the whole commentary →