Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
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Gill's Exposition
Will he make a covenant with thee?.... To live in friendship or servitude, as follows;
wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? oblige him to serve thee for life, or reduce him to perpetual…
Barnes' Notes
Will he make a covenant with thee? - That is, will he submit himself to thee, and enter into a compact to serve thee? Such a compact was made by those who agreed to serve another; and the idea here…
Adam Clarke
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…
Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the…
Cambridge Bible
Will he consent to be one of thy domesticated animals, and serve thee?
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