Job 41:4
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
BSB
ASV
Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
KJV
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Will he make a covenant - Canst thou hire him as thou wouldst a servant, who is to be so attached to thy family as to have his ear bored, that he may abide in thy house for ever? Is not this an allusion to the law, Exo 21:1-6?
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Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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Exodus 21:6then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for…
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then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.