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then you must take an awl and thrust it through his ear to a door

"then you will place his head near a wooden door frame in your house, and then put the point of the awl through his earlobe into the wood"

awl

a sharp, pointed tool used to make a hole (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown)

for life

"until the end of his life" or "until he dies"