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Deuteronomy 15:16

in Deuteronomy 15

But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

KJV

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

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This verse in Deuteronomy 15

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee

on Deuteronomy 15:16-17

Exodus 21:5-6 gave this ceremony and the repetition drops a step, since there the master brought the servant unto the judges and then to the door, and here he takes the aul and the door alone. The reason the servant gives is love, of the master and of the house, so an act that binds a man for life rests on words he says himself. Verse 17 extends the whole provision to the maidservant, which Exodus does not do. Older commentators, John Gill among them, set the bored ear beside Psalm 40:6, mine ears hast thou opened, and read it of the obedience of Christ, and Hebrews 10:5 quotes that psalm in its Septuagint form, a body hast thou prepared me.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Here is an addition to this law, requiring them to put some small stock into their servants' hands to set up with for themselves, when they sent them out of their service,

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָיָה֙and it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כִּֽי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יֹאמַ֣רhe will say

    yomarH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלֶ֔יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • אֵצֵ֖אI will go out

    ʾetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • מֵעִמָּ֑ךְfrom with <the> you

    meimakhH5973 →1050 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אֲהֵֽבְךָ֙he loves you

    ʾahevekhaH157 →211 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בֵּיתֶ֔ךָhousehold your

    beitekhaH1004 →2046 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • ט֥וֹבit has been good

    tovH2895 →45 times

  • ל֖וֹfor <the> him

    lo

  • עִמָּֽךְ׃with you

    ʾimakhH5973 →1050 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 40:8

    I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

    it leads to

    • Romans 7:22

      For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

    • John 4:34

      Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

    • Jeremiah 15:16

      Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

    • Psalms 119:24

      Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.

    • Psalms 119:16

      I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

  • Through

    Psalms 40:6

    Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:5–12

      Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

    • Isaiah 1:11

      “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood…

    • 1 Samuel 15:22

      But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 15 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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