Exodus 21:6

Laws About Slaves

⁵ But and if the servant say, 'I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out free.' ⁶ Then let his master bring him unto the judges and set him to the door or the doorpost, and bore his ear through with an awl, and let him be his servant forever. ⁷ "If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do.

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Exodus 22:8-9

If the thief be not found, then the goodman of the house shall be brought unto the judges and swear, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's good.

Exodus 12:12

"For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.

Exodus 18:21-26

Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

Exodus 21:22

"When men strive and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be amerced, according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the daysmen appoint him.

Exodus 22:28

"Thou shalt not rail upon the judges, neither curse the ruler of thy people.

Leviticus 25:23

Wherefore the land shall not be sold forever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and sojourners with me:

Leviticus 25:40

but as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the trumpet year,

Numbers 25:5-8

And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor."

Deuteronomy 1:16

And I charged your judges the same time, saying, 'Hear your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.

Deuteronomy 15:17

Then take an awl and nail his ear to the door therewith and let him be thy servant forever, and unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges and officers thou shalt make thee in all thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: And let them judge the people righteously.

Deuteronomy 19:17-18

then let both the men which strive together stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days,

1 Samuel 1:22

But Hannah went not up, for she said unto her husband, "I will tarry until the lad be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD and there abide forever."

1 Samuel 8:1-2

Then Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 27:12

And Achish believed David, saying, "He hath made himself to stink unto his people Israel, and thereto he shall be my servant forever."

1 Samuel 28:2

And David said again to Achish, "Then thou shalt know what thy servant can do." And Achish said to David, "Then I will make thee keeper of my head forever."

1 Kings 12:7

And they said unto him, "If thou shalt be a servant unto this people this day and serve them and answer them and speak kind words to them: they will be thy servants forever."

Psalm 40:6-8

Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.

Isaiah 1:26

and set thy judges again as they were sometime, and thy Senators as they were from the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the righteous city, the faithful city.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.