Deuteronomy 15:16
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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- Exodus 21:5–6 But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’ then 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 life.
- Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.