Deuteronomio 15:17

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Entonces tomarás una lesna, y horadarás su oreja junto á la puerta, y será tu siervo para siempre: así también harás á tu criada.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
entonces tomarás una lezna y horadarás su oreja contra la puerta, y será tu siervo para siempre. Y lo mismo harás a tu sierva.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
entonces tomar�s una lezna, y horadar�s su oreja junto a la puerta, y ser� tu siervo para siempre: as� tambi�n har�s a tu criada.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
entonces tomar�s una lesna, y horadar�s su oreja junto a la puerta, y ser� tu siervo para siempre; as� tambi�n har�s a tu criada.

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

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 awl — Exodus 21:6.