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then 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.
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Verse 17. House, before a judge. It is supposed that this law regarded only those who had sold themselves, or had been condemned to be slaves. Fagius.—For ever; that is, till the year of jubilee.—Also, not by piercing her ear, as some have thought, but by setting her at liberty, and giving her something, verse 14.
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