then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Jewish Publication Society of America Version (JPS1917) - Deuteronomy 15:17 >then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.