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,
But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
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