ear piercings

¹²And I put gold upon your face, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

⁶then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.

¹⁷then you shall take an awl and pierce his ear, at the door of your house. And he shall serve you even forever. You shall also act similarly toward your woman servant.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,

⁴Therefore, they gave him all the foreign gods which they had, and the earrings which were in their ears. And then he buried them under the terebinth tree, which is beyond the city of Shechem.

¹²Whoever reproves the wise and obedient ear is like an earring of gold with a shining pearl.

¹³And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me,” says the Lord.

²⁴And he said to them: “I petition one request from you. Give me the earrings from your spoils.” For the Ishmaelites were accustomed to wear gold earrings.

⁵And if the servant will say, ‘I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,’ ⁶then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

²And Aaron said to them, “Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” ³And the people did what he had commanded, carrying the earrings to Aaron.

²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

²⁰and the ornaments for their hair, and the anklets, and the touches of myrrh and little bottles of perfumes, and the earrings,

¹⁵Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world.