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Re: Earrings? Why not? God piereces ears!
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
I don't know...if you read the scriptures and the commentary the point wasn't an ear ring or a hole in the ear lobe, but the joining of the ear with the door to the house of the master
Exo 21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. |
Scripture doesn't condemn earrings, so it's not illogical to assume they wore one in the hole to keep it open.
Also, the fact that they braced the ear against the door to make the hole doesn't mean that the point of the act was to "join...the ear with the door...." The point was creating a symbol of the fact that the servant would voluntarily serve the master forever. Whether that was just a hole or a hole with an earring in it seems marginal to me.
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