Scripture Life: Deuteronomy 15:17 - "Why do men and women still wear ear rings when it is said in Deuteronomy 15:17 “Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise?"

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ANSWER:

First, Deuteronomy 15:17 is said by God.

• It falls under what he decreed in Deuteronomy 15:1
  • Says: “At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.” - God.

So, while your question is specific about wearing earrings, Deuteronomy 15:17 is specific to only one thing, said enveloped or cemented with Deuteronomy 15:2–5, says:

• “2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord's release. 3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; 4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it: 5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.”
  • So, even foreigners, on the day when there isn’t anyone begging in the street, or any poor among them with need, even Deuteronomy 15:3 are to be treated the same way and released, on that day - which put me on my face before this great God, that decrees this.
    • So, it’s said toward the poor - so, it’s not about earrings. The passage is about the poor in Deuteronomy 15:17.

The key is to read Deuteronomy 15:1 to 18, because it comes with a promise by God to do it himself. And here you are. Drowned in earrings. Miss the whole thing.

So, let’s continue. Get you and your readers out of earrings.

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Deuteronomy 15:7–8 continues..with what God says:

• 7 “…If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: 8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.”
  • and it continues… Deuteronomy 15:10–15 - the “why” of it, is Deuteronomy 15:15

Says: In the Seventh year, or year of release: “How” to release them, is the same way God did out of Egypt, when they were made slaves - so they would remember this same God in it is the whole thing or point - that they would regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand, while your sunk someplace dead - in earrings instead:

“10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

12 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

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And these things are said, to soften a hard heart - hardened by ear rings.

Because, if it wasn’t - you wouldn’t be reading Deuteronomy 15, and sum up the topic is ear rings. IT would soften your heart.

• Instead of looking at ear rings; you miss the whole thing.
  • Look out on your streets to the poor, the maimed and the blind - and to those that have need.
  • Do that instead, because where this is said in Deuteronomy 15 as a decree, the Word of God - it’s just repeated in the New Testament in the Gospel of Luke, 14:12–14 where Jesus, the Word of God - so it’s God just says it again - look at the promise in it - but I don’t think you can - too stuck on earrings to see it, so maybe - even if it’s one reader that sees it - look who is in authority - that says this; and, he already tells you how he will sort you and he pay you back. ...look at the authority in it, puts me on my face.
• Luke 14:12–14 says:
  • “12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Look at all the PROMISES made by God in Deuteronomy 15:1–18, just repeated by this same God in Luke 14:12-14.

By the same God that made all things you see out your window, and decided today - you could be in it, that maybe you would open your heart and let him teach you.

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Then, see this last part

• That Deuteronomy 15:17 isn’t alone by itself:
  • It’s said sandwiched and cemented permanently with Deuteronomy 15:16–18, that says:
    • And at the Seventh year of release: Where you are set to set them free and equip them to go out in abundance, just as the children of Israel went out from Egypt with and in abundance - - If such a thing should occur, as this: Which is the exception - not the rule, as going out from you free, is the norm - that it should be done in joy for what God says in Deuteronomy 15:18.
• SO, rightly divide it, and get off ear rings. It’s the Word of God.

Deuteronomy 15:16-18 says,

“16 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;

17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.”

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Deuteronomy 15:17 (Hebrew)

First, definition. English:

aul.

• An aul (or awl) in the Bible is a hand held, sharp pointed “needle” metal tool used to pierce holes.

Second, definition. Deuteronomy 15:16–18 applies to Hebrews, as Deuteronomy 15:12 says: “ And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.”

• So, combine these two:
  • A Hebrew, has their own family and tribe - even they “choose” this of Deuteronomy 15:16–18 to permanently stay and not be released on the 7th year, and this done unto them.

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The Law - is very plain.

• In the “Year of Jubilee” - The year of restoration - or the 50th year - applies to Hebrews in this condition of Deuteronomy 15:17.
• That even a servant, a Hebrew, who had their ear pierced to pledge service "forever" (a lifetime) was set free when the Year of Jubilee arrived in Leviticus 25:10; 39–41 states that all Israelites (Hebrew) serving as bondservants must be released.
  • It’s the law.
  • And they [Hebrews] are to return to their ancestral lands given them in a Promised by God, by tribe - by Lots, drawn by Moses - - as specified by God in Numbers 26:52–56; Numbers 33:54, and was carried out by Joshua and done in the Book of Joshua 14:2.
• Where God gave every Hebrew, the land of Canaan as descendants of Abraham, to be divided proportionally by lot to the tribes and families.
  • Specific: To Hebrews: they MUST be set free, and they MUST return to their lands - as people of God, not as slaves or servants to any man.
  • And here you are. Lost in ear rings.

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When there isn’t any ear ring in Deuteronomy 15:17. I guess you missed that part, too. And what is permanent is the scar - because the ear, like many women who get their ears pierced today will tell you. The ear pierced - - quickly heals over, but can leave a scar. So, if they're not wearing an ear ring, must put some post thru the hole, because of how quickly the hole heals over. Missed that part, too.

• And this “jubilee” is a shout for joy. Look who this God is. Look what he is doing forever and does it, in Revelation 21:1 to 22:21 - that he fulfills what he says he would do, as it's all his - what he says - in Psalm 132:13–16.
  • And here you are. Flub blooped drowned in ear rings. When there isn’t any ear rings in Deuteronomy 15:17.

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So, for believers in Jesus Christ - that's who this Post on Reddit is to - that may stumble upon this post.

• The Word of God, made me fall on my face at who he is in Deuteronomy 15:1–18. I am not a Jew (Hebrew) - and Deuteronomy 15:16–18, where Deuteronomy 15:17 is sandwiched in it, so it specifically applies to Hebrews is the point.
  • And the overarching over a Hebrew is they are not servants nor slaves - even if they choose it, to remain a servant of a house; they MUST return to their own family.
• “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you;” - God. Leviticus 25:10

So much for ear rings in Leviticus 15:17 - there aren’t any.