◄ Deuteronomy 15:16 ►
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Good News Translation
"But your slave may not want to leave; he may love you and your family and be content to stay.

New Revised Standard Version
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,

Contemporary English Version
But one of your slaves may say, "I love you and your family, and I would be better off staying with you, so please don't make me leave."

New American Bible
But if he says to you, “I do not wish to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:

Exodus 21:5,6 And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free: . . .

Psalm 40:6,8 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: . . .

Context
Release of Hebrew Servants
…15Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this. 16But if he say: I will not depart: because he loveth thee, and thy house, and findeth that he is well with thee:17Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:5
And if the servant shall say: I love my master and my wife and children, I will not go out free:

Exodus 21:6
His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

Deuteronomy 15:15
Remember that thou also wast a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God made thee free, and therefore I now command thee this.

Deuteronomy 15:17
Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.

Deuteronomy 15:15
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