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Deuteronomy 15:17
take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.
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Leviticus 25:40
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
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1 Samuel 28 2
David replied to Achish,“ Good, you will find out what your servant can do.” So Achish said to David,“ Very well, I will appoint you as my permanent bodyguard.”
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Deuteronomy 19:17-18
the two people in the dispute are to stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and judges in authority at that time.The judges are to make a careful investigation, and if the witness turns out to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,
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Numbers 25:5-8
So Moses told Israel’s judges,“ Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman— through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,
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Zephaniah 3:3
The princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the night, which leave nothing for the morning.
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Leviticus 25:23
“ The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.
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Exodus 21:22
“ When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.
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1 Samuel 27 12
So Achish trusted David, thinking,“ Since he has made himself repulsive to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”
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Exodus 12:12
“ I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the LORD; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.
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1 Kings 12 7
They replied,“ Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
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Exodus 22:8-9
If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house must present himself to the judges to determine whether or not he has taken his neighbor’s property.In any case of wrongdoing involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything else lost, and someone claims,‘ That’s mine,’ the case between the two parties is to come before the judges. The one the judges condemn must repay double to his neighbor.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
“ Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
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Exodus 22:28
“ You must not blaspheme God or curse a leader among your people.
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1 Samuel 8 1-1 Samuel 8 2
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.His firstborn son’s name was Joel and his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beer-sheba.
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Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or his resident alien.
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1 Samuel 1 22
Hannah did not go and explained to her husband,“ After the child is weaned, I’ll take him to appear in the LORD’s presence and to stay there permanently.”
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Exodus 18:21-26
But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every major case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you.If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.
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Psalms 40:6-8
You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; you open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.Then I said,“ See, I have come; in the scroll it is written about me.I delight to do your will, my God, and your instruction is deep within me.”
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Isaiah 1:26
I will restore your judges to what they were at first, and your advisers to what they were at the start. Afterward you will be called the Righteous City, a Faithful Town.”